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Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature
  • D. Kuss, M. Griffiths
  • Psychology
    International journal of environmental research…
  • 29 August 2011
TLDR
The findings indicate that SNSs are predominantly used for social purposes, mostly related to the maintenance of established offline networks, and extraverts appear to use social networking sites for social enhancement, whereas introverts use it for social compensation.
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Internet addiction: a systematic review of epidemiological research for the last decade.
TLDR
The results indicate that a number of core symptoms of Internet addiction appear relevant for diagnosis, which assimilates Internet addiction and other addictive disorders and also differentiates them, implying a conceptualisation as syndrome with similar etiology and components, but different expressions of addictions.
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The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study.
TLDR
The study significantly adds to the understanding of mental health symptoms and their role in addictive use of modern technology, and suggests that the concept of Internet use disorder (i.e., "Internet addiction") as a unified construct is not warranted.
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Internet Gaming Addiction: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research
  • D. Kuss, M. Griffiths
  • Psychology, Business
    International Journal of Mental Health and…
  • 1 April 2012
The activity of play has been ever present in human history and the Internet has emerged as a playground increasingly populated by gamers. Research suggests that a minority of Internet game players…
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Internet addiction in students: Prevalence and risk factors
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Can Disordered Mobile Phone Use Be Considered a Behavioral Addiction? An Update on Current Evidence and a Comprehensive Model for Future Research
Despite the many positive outcomes, excessive mobile phone use is now often associated with potentially harmful and/or disturbing behaviors (e.g., symptoms of deregulated use, negative impact on…
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Social Networking Sites and Addiction: Ten Lessons Learned
TLDR
10 lessons learned concerning online social networking sites and addiction based on the insights derived from recent empirical research will be presented and recommendations for research and clinical applications are provided.
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Internet addiction in adolescents: Prevalence and risk factors
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Online Gaming Addiction? Motives Predict Addictive Play Behavior in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games
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Results indicated that MMORPG players are significantly more likely to experience gaming-related problems relative to nonplayers, and that the gaming motivations escapism and mechanics significantly predicted excessive gaming and appeared as stronger predictors than time investment in game.
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The (co-)occurrence of problematic video gaming, substance use, and psychosocial problems in adolescents
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It appears that online gaming in general is not necessarily associated with problems, however, problematic gamers do seem to play online games more often, and a small subgroup of gamers – specifically boys – showed lower psychosocial functioning and lower grades.
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