Attachment style, stressful events, and Internet gaming addiction in Korean university students

Objectivity and Subjectivity in Games: Understanding Engagement and Addiction Mechanism

“…This study adopted game addiction as the term used throughout the study as representative of all those terms mentioned earlier. Game addiction can be defined as the inability to control excessive and persistent gaming habits despite awareness of social and emotional problems [11], response to life stress [77], coping strategy [42][53], or attachment insecurity [81]. The DSM-5 had proposed nine criteria for assessing game addiction which had been mapped and associated with core (i.e., withdrawal, relapse, conflict, and problems) and peripheral criteria (salience, tolerance, and mood modification) [29][15] [11].…”

“…Moreover, the study suggested that psychological characteristics need to be analyzed in a set of factors rather than isolated and explored as part of a chain of events rather than a focal point that may be informative and contribute to theory building. Also, it was previously found that gaming addiction is linked to a variety of comorbid psychopathological [80], personality differences [84], and attachment styles [81]. Looking from another perspective, relating addiction to the sense of substance use were associated with brain reward and related circuitry embedded within the environmental and sociocultural contexts [77].…”

Early-Life Interpersonal and Affective Risk Factors for Pathological Gaming

“…In contrast, avoidant individuals suppress their needs for interpersonal intimacy, to prevent frustrations associated with social rejection (53). Among these individuals, pathological gaming may be driven by the potential of games to suppress their negative emotions and to deactivate their needs for attachment relationships (54).…”

Policymakers as safe havens: The relationship between adult attachment style, COVID-19 fear, and regulation compliance

“…In other words, in times of stress, individuals with secure attachment can assess their abilities and limitations in facing the threat and thus respond by employing optimized and adaptive mechanisms. On the other hand, insecure attachment individuals tend toward maladaptive emotional response and behavior when faced with stressful events ( Moccia et al, 2020 ; Sung et al, 2020 ). Those characterized by ambivalent-anxious attachment feel a sense of helplessness and smallness and tend to lack a sense of permanence and support from their environment ( Campbell & Marshall, 2011 ).…”