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Social media addiction: associations with attachment style, mental distress, and personality
BackgroundSocial media bring not only benefits but also downsides, such as addictive behavior. While an ambivalent closed insecure attachment style...
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Occurrence of problematic Internet use and its correlates among Egyptian adolescent students in international schools in Cairo
BackgroundInternet addiction is a global phenomenon that has been a topic of great interest to researchers, clinicians, teachers, parents, and...
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Negative Consequences Experienced by Individuals with Gaming Disorder Symptoms: A Systematic Review of Available Longitudinal Studies
Purpose of ReviewGaming disorder (GD) is a growing concern for health policies worldwide. The aim of the research presented here was to review...
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Are School-Based Interventions Effective in Preventing Internet Misuse? A Systematic Review
Problems related to the use of the internet have triggered the appearance of internet addiction. With this problem comes the need for prevention. The...
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Prevalence and factors associated with digital addiction among students taking university entrance tests: a GIS-based study
BackgroundThe surge in digital media consumption, coupled with the ensuing consequences of digital addiction, has witnessed a rapid increase,...
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Effectiveness of a mobile app-based educational intervention to treat internet gaming disorder among Iranian adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundThe use of video games, a hobby for many teenagers in their leisure time, has brought with it a new potential for concerns. Internet gaming...
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Behavioral Addiction from the Asian Americans Perspective: Exploration of Public and Help-Seeking Stigma
Asian Americans have been unlikely to seek mental health services despite their needs for treatment, particularly when experiencing significant...
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Internet Gaming Disorder in adolescence: investigating profiles and associated risk factors
BackgroundElectronic gaming is a popular free-time activity and its deleterious effects have been considered by the American Psychiatric Association...
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Determination of the cutoff point for Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale for adolescents: a latent profile analysis
BackgroundsThe Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS) is a validated 6-item measurement tool for assessing problematic smartphone use...
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Longitudinal Associations of Social Anxiety Trajectories with Internet-Related Addictive Behaviors Among College Students: A Five-Wave Survey Study
The college stage is characterized by increased interpersonal interaction and intense social anxiety. Although the associations between social...
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Relationship between fruit and vegetable consumption and internet addiction with insomnia and depression as multiple mediators during the COVID-19 pandemic: a three-wave longitudinal study in Chinese college students
BackgroundThe relationships between fruit and vegetable consumption (FV) and Internet addiction (IA) in college students still remained unknown...
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Will Internet Availability Fuel Problematic Internet Use? A Cross-Temporal Meta-analysis of Patterns in China from 2003 to 2020
Purpose of ReviewProblematic internet use (PIU) has varied across countries and eras, but how it may relate to internet availability has not been...
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Network analyses of internet gaming disorder symptoms and their links with different types of motivation
The study used regularized partial correlation network analysis (EBICglasso) to examine the structure of DSM-5 internet gaming disorder (IGD)...
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Effect of online game policy on smartphone game play time, addiction, and emotion in rural adolescents of China
BackgroundSmartphone game addiction has emerged as a major public health problem in China and worldwide. In November 2019 and August 2021, the...
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Cross-Addiction Risk Profile Associations with COVID-19 Anxiety: a Preliminary Exploratory Study
“Cross-addiction” involves a person substituting one form of addictive behaviour for another. Indeed, cross-additive presentations have been...
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The Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale
The rapid development of internet technology has substantially improved individuals’ social media use. However, a minority group of individuals may...
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Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment Model Based on ICD-11 Criteria of Gaming Disorder and Hazardous Gaming During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Purpose of ReviewThis commentary aimed to propose the screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) model for gaming disorder (GD)...
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Attachment, Emotion Dysregulation, and Video Game Play: Testing the Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation in Gaming Disorder
Insecure attachment styles (anxious and avoidant) are significantly associated with the severity of gaming disorder (GD) symptoms. Research has also...
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Problematic video gaming is negatively associated with bone mineral density in adolescents
Adolescent bone health may be negatively impacted by problematic video gaming (PVG) due to factors such as prolonged screen time, poor sleep quality,...
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The reliability and validity of a screening scale for online gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents and young adults
BackgroundIn recent years, there have been frequent reports of gaming disorder in China, with more focus on young people. We developed and...
