“…Furthermore, they are known to predict lack of psychological wellbeing and mental health (Argyle, 2013;Cheng & Furnham, 2002). Previous studies have found that higher depressive symptoms, lower self-esteem, higher loneliness, and elevated social anxiety to be highly associated with both childhood emotional trauma (Finzi-Dottan & Karu, 2006;Heim et al, 2009;Norton & Abbott, 2017;Runyan et al, 2002;Saleh et al, 2017) and body image dissatisfaction (Junne et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2018). Additionally, depressive symptoms, low self-esteem, loneliness, and high social anxiety have frequently been associated with IGD (Andreassen et al, 2016;Bargeron & Hormes, 2017;Beard & Wickham, 2016;Griffiths, Király, Pontes, & Demetrovics, 2015;Laconi et al, 2017;Lemmens, Valkenburg, & Gentile, 2015;Sioni et al, 2017).…”