The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study.

Abstract

Pallesen, S. (2016). The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Internet Gaming Disorder Behaviors in Emergent Adulthood: a Pilot Study Examining the Interplay Between Anxiety and Family Cohesion

“…More specifically, results suggested that emergent adult MMO players who reported higher anxiety were inclined to have higher IGD scores. This is in consensus with previous research indicating the role of anxiety as a risk factor for addictions in general (Buckner and Schmidt 2009;Cooper et al 2014;Parhami et al 2014;Sareen et al 2006;Van Der Maas 2016), and for onlinerelated addictive behaviors in particular (Andreassen et al 2016;Lee and Stapinski 2012).…”

“…A significant relationship between anxiety and addictive behaviors, and technological addictions in particular, has been repeatedly demonstrated (Andreassen et al 2016;Buckner and Schmidt 2009;Cooper et al 2014;Essau et al 2014;Lee and Stapinski 2012;Parhami et al 2014;Sareen et al 2006;Van Der Maas 2016). Furthermore, anxiety-related factors such as sensitivity to stress, perceived uncontrollability, and avoidance have also been shown to be associated with addiction severity (Forsyth et al 2003).…”

Individual Differences and the Development of Internet Addiction

“…Taken together, these findings could potentially illustrate common clinical course and shared etiology between different types of addictive behaviors. Furtherly, these results lend support to previous studies suggesting some underlying common risk factors between several technological addictions and related behaviors (Andreassen et al, 2016;Grant, Potenza, Weinstein, & Gorelick, 2010;Pontes, 2017;Robbins & Clark, 2015) and provide context to further understand why empirical studies often report positive associations between various addictive technological behaviors (Andreassen et al, 2016;Király et al, 2014;Pontes, 2017).…”

Augmented Reality Video Games: New Possibilities and Implications for Children and Adolescents

“…Results should therefore be evaluated and extrapolated by taking this risk into consideration. Andreassen et al [42] highlighted significant positive correlations between symptoms of addictive technology use and mental disorder symptoms. This study builds upon previous empirical investigations, which utilized small and non-representative samples, by using a much larger and broader sample, thereby increasing the statistical reliability of the identified associations.…”