Online Addictions

Griffiths,; Kuss, DJ

doi:10.1002/9781118426456.ch17

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“…When compared with primarily offline gamblers, online gamblers appear to have distinct characteristics and gambling preferences and may have higher rates of problem gambling (Wood & Williams, 2011). A large majority of individuals who gamble online also gamble offline, suggesting that gamblers take advantage of the increased access to various gambling forms (Griffiths & Kuss, 2015).…”

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Measuring Problem Online Video Gaming and Its Association With Problem Gambling and Suspected Motivational, Mental Health, and Behavioral Risk Factors in a Sample of University Students

2020

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Recently, the issue of problem online video game playing and its potential connection with problem gambling has drawn increased attention. Although conceptually similar to many behavioral addictions, there is still no clear consensus on how to best measure and assess problem video game playing. This study validates one proposed measure of problem video gaming—the Problem Video Game Playing Test (PVGT)—in a Canadian undergraduate university student sample. Multivariate results indicate that problem video gaming is positively associated with the average length of time spent gaming, social alienation, and online gaming motives such as competition, escape, coping, recreation, and socializing; but, contrary to the gateway hypothesis, problem gambling and several of its mental health correlates—depression, anxiety, and stress—are not associated with problem video gaming as measured by the PVGT. Limitations and implications of this analysis are discussed.

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Measuring Problem Online Video Gaming and Its Association With Problem Gambling and Suspected Motivational, Mental Health, and Behavioral Risk Factors in a Sample of University Students

2020

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“…In particular, does highly repetitive technology use represent a pathology that originates with chronic dysphoria, personality traits, or neurological disorders, as "disease" models imply? Empirical research suggests that only a small population of clinically addicted Internet users exists (Alter, 2017;Griffiths & Kuss, 2015;Tokunaga, 2017). Mental illness is generally marked by severe life consequences (e.g.…”

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Technology habits: Progress, problems, and prospects

Bayer¹

2020

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Technology habits have been objects of research for over 100 years and provided heuristic cases for the study of habits over the last two decades. This chapter traces the history of research on information and communication technologies in daily life, with an eye toward measurement and conceptualization problems. Similar to the new technologies of earlier eras, the prominence of current habitual manifestations has raised challenging questions for both researchers and societies. These new-er media habits may exaggerate core habit-ual mechanisms by providing a wide spectrum of potential cues, possible contexts, and complex rewards—resulting in dynamic habits that appear to be “special”. We discuss how research on technology habits serves to uncover the assumptions, boundaries, and moderators of habit, while calling for a revised approach to address recurring problems in the literature. Altogether, the chapter clarifies how technology habit research contributes to a broader understanding of habitual behaviour.

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“…Although we have focused on habits in this chapter, the addiction perspective continues to collide with tech habit research. In response to early disease model investigations of "excessive" usage (now considered average levels of use), there have been growing calls to reassess the assignment of the "addiction" label across disciplines (Billieux et al, 2014;Griffiths & Kuss, 2015;Tokunaga, 2015). Most recently, criticisms about technological and other controversial addictions were funneled into exclusion criterion to limit false positives (Kardefelt-Winther et al, 2017).…”

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