The Increase in Addiction during COVID-19

Daglis, Theodoros

doi:10.3390/encyclopedia1040095

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“…Among behavioral addictions, as observed in our study, internet addiction (particularly the use of social medias), cybersex, video gaming and online gambling, problematic internet use and problematic pornography use have shown a significant rise during lockdown ( 44 ) with an increase in connections to porn sites from 4 to 24% ( 45 – 47 ). Stress, boredom and isolation caused by confinement, may have played a significant role in this increase ( 48 ).…”

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Psychoactive substance use, internet use and mental health changes during the COVID-19 lockdown in a French population: A study of gender effect

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IntroductionCOVID-19 has enormous impacts on each individual. The goals of our study were (1) to assess the rate of internet and psychoactive substance use, clinical depression and anxiety in a French population during the lockdown (2) to study the role of clinical and socio-demographic variables (especially, gender).Materials and methodsDuring lockdown, an online anonymous questionnaire was used to assess socio-demographic and health data, previous psychiatric history, anterior and current internet and psychoactive substance use, current anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation. The associations of socio-demographic, clinical variables with anxiety, depression, internet or psychoactive substance use were examined.ResultsThe study included 263 participants (aged 38.1 ± 15.3−197 males and 64 females). During the lockdown, internet use increased in 14.4% of cases, alcohol use in 20.2%, and tobacco use in 6.8%. In contrast, more participants reported a decrease in alcohol, tobacco or illicit drug use (25.9, 24, and 27.8% respectively). Anxiety was reported in 62.4% and depression in 20.2% of cases; 29.7% of participants reported an increase in anxiety and 25.5% an increase in depression. Depression was associated with an increase in internet and tobacco use. Tobacco and alcohol use were positively associated and an increase in use was more frequent in previous users of both substances. Maintaining a daily routine and relationships with family, being self-employed were associated to lower risks of depression and anxiety.ConclusionHigher rates of internet use, as well as depression and anxiety, were observed during the lockdown. Gender was not a significant associated factor.

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Psychoactive substance use, internet use and mental health changes during the COVID-19 lockdown in a French population: A study of gender effect

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“…Considering that the period of COVID-19 was included in the analysis, it is inevitable to not exclude the impact of the pandemic in this study. However, the seriousness of the addiction problem is being highlighted as the Internet and smartphone use rapidly increases as a result of the abrupt environmental change due to COVID-19 (Daglis, 2021 ). As a result, both parents and their children have increased their dependence on smartphones in this study, indicating that smartphone addiction is a problem that may exacerbate in the future due to the pandemic.…”

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A Longitudinal Relationship Between Mother’s Smartphone Addiction to Child’s Smartphone Addiction

Jeong

Kim

Ryu

et al. 2022

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Children are more likely to become addicted as they become accustomed to using smartphones, and as they observe and imitate their parents using smartphones. This study aims to confirm longitudinally the effect of mother’s smartphone addiction on children’s smartphone addiction. Latent growth modeling was used to analyze longitudinal relationships between 3615 pairs of children and their mothers from the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey (KCYPS) (2018–2020). As a result, both the mothers and children’s smartphone addiction significantly increased over time. The initial value of the mother’s smartphone addiction was found to have a significant effect on the child's initial value and the change rate. Moreover, children’s smartphone addiction change rate was significantly affected by the change rate of the mother’s smartphone addiction. To intervene in children’s smartphone addiction, a family-level approach, as well as parental addiction, must also be addressed, and a preventive approach should focus on those with a low risk of addiction.

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“…Among so many psychological consequences of the pandemic, our main focus was dissociation caused by perceived stress. First, COVID-19 significantly increased addictive behavior in society [57], and as addiction may be considered a dissociative behavior, dissociation has to do with addictions [53]. Second, dissociative experiences entail a higher risk of the appearance of dissociative disorders such as PTSD [58].…”

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Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dis-sociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kolozsvári¹,

Rekenyi²,

Garbóczy³

et al. 2023

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Background: Our study aimed to examine how modulating variables such as social support, health anxiety, coping, gender, being separated from home, and lockdown can modify or amplify the effect of perceived stress as a starting variable in the point of view of the output variable, dissociation. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in online form at two points in time: the beginning and the later stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: We received a total of 1711 responses. Perceived stress moderately correlated with dissociation in both International and Hungarian samples. Health anxiety showed a strong direct and indirect correlation with dissociation. Regarding social support, the support of family significantly decreased the dissociative experiences in the Hungarian sample through mediating the stress and directly as well. In the international sample, the goal-oriented coping strategy had a strong decreasing effect on all dissociation scales in the first measurement, through mediation of perceived stress. As to the Hungarian sample, positive thinking was found to decrease dissociation through decreasing perceived stress. Conclusion: The cause and effect relationship between stress and dissociation may be tinctured by health anxiety, coping and social support, influencing dissociacion directly and indirectly. Social support, mainly support of the family and problem-focused coping strategies seem to alleviate dissociation-provoking effect of stress.

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The Increase in Addiction during COVID-19

Cited by 15 publications

References 70 publications

Psychoactive substance use, internet use and mental health changes during the COVID-19 lockdown in a French population: A study of gender effect

Psychoactive substance use, internet use and mental health changes during the COVID-19 lockdown in a French population: A study of gender effect

A Longitudinal Relationship Between Mother’s Smartphone Addiction to Child’s Smartphone Addiction

Effects of Health Anxiety, Social Support, and Coping on Dis-sociation with Mediating Role of Perceived Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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