Coping with COVID-19 pandemic stressors: Comparisons between non-players and players, and levels of Game Transfer Phenomena

Gortari, Angelica B. Ortiz de

doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100530

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“…While Gaming Disorder is associated with GTP [27,39], not all gamers with GTP present with symptoms of GD and most do not have negative consequences due to their GTP [35,38]. However, GTP have been associated with distress and dysfunction when they manifest recurrently, with aversive content, endogenous phenomena (e.g., hearing voices coming from somewhere, seeing images overlaying objects), or involving dissociations and corporal sensations (e.g., feeling as if they are still in the game) [21,37].…”

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Game Transfer Phenomena in a Clinical Case with Psychosis and Gaming Disorder

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Ortiz de Gortari,

Callan

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Psychiatry International

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Little is known about the interplay of Gaming Disorder (GD) with psychotic processes in schizophrenia. Only a few clinical cases involving video game playing and psychotic symptoms have been previously reported in literature. This case report describes a 24-year-old male diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and GD. Our case, Patient G, had premorbid excessive video game playing and Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP) prior to the onset of his schizophrenia illness. GTP are common among gamers and are characterised by abnormal perceptions, intrusive thoughts, and temporal change on behaviours related to the content of video games. However, GTP are not necessarily of delusional intensity for meeting the threshold of psychosis. The relapse in Patient G’s paranoid schizophrenia was associated with recent cannabis use, social withdrawal, and excessive video game playing. Patient G’s psychotic symptoms were influenced by video game themes and the movie “Matrix”, including the delusion that he was in a video game and that people around him were “non-playable characters”. Awareness of GTP can help clinicians to demarcate GTP from psychotic features and identify their interactions, given the ensuing treatment implications. Our case report highlights the importance of GTP, which in some cases may be an early sign of developing mental illness and could have implications for early intervention and prevention of illness onset and complications.

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“…The prevalence of GTP among video game players is high, between 82% and 96% [21,29,[33][34][35][36], although most players experience mild levels of GTP [37,38]. Endogenous forms of GTP are more common [21].…”

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Game Transfer Phenomena in a Clinical Case with Psychosis and Gaming Disorder

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Ortiz de Gortari,

Callan

et al. 2023

Psychiatry International

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“…Li et al found the prevalence of Internet addiction among the general population in China during the COVID-19 pandemic was remarkably high ( Li et al, 2021 ). This may be related to measures to encourage people to stay at home for maintaining social distancing in order to curb the development of the epidemic ( Ortiz de Gortari, 2022 ). The measure of isolation at home reduces the opportunities for people to go out for activities, while the free time of Internet access at home increases ( Kar et al, 2020 ).…”

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Associations between internet addiction and psychological problems among adolescents: description and possible explanations

Xue

Zheng

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionInternet addiction (IA) is becoming a significant public health issue that requires urgent attention, especially for adolescents. Previous studies mainly focused on the risk factors of Internet addiction and drawn some conclusions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Internet addiction status and concurrent psychological problems in adolescent groups, and explore the differences in the relationship between IA and psychological problems in adolescents from gender and grade.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted among students of junior and senior high school in 21 prefecture-level cities of Guangdong Province. The Young Diagnostic Questionnaire (YDQ) and the validated Chinese version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) were used to assess participants’ Internet addiction and psychological status. Two-way ANOVA was used to verify the interaction between gender and Internet addiction, grade and Internet addiction on psychological problems. When the interaction was statistically significant, simple effect analysis was further carried out.ResultsThe prevalence of problematic Internet use (PIU), depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms among adolescents were 16.32%, 30.16%, 35.97% and 18.80% respectively. Although the prevalence of PIU among boys (17.89%) was higher than that of girls (14.86%), girls in PIU group had the highest scores of depression, anxiety and stress. Similarly, the interaction between grade and Internet addiction was also significant (p < 0.05). Although the prevalence of PIU was the highest in grade 9 (17.29%), the adverse effects of Internet addiction on psychological problems were different in different grades.DiscussionInternet addiction was prevalent among adolescents in Guangdong province, and psychological problems also cannot be ignored. Thus, this study suggests that long-term follow-ups should be included in mental health programs of adolescents to monitor the development of Internet addiction and psychological problems.

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Sensory and cognitive intrusions with and without media content during the COVID-19 pandemic: Isolation, media use, sleep and stress factors

Ortiz de Gortari

2024

Telematics and Informatics

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Coping with COVID-19 pandemic stressors: Comparisons between non-players and players, and levels of Game Transfer Phenomena

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Game Transfer Phenomena in a Clinical Case with Psychosis and Gaming Disorder

Game Transfer Phenomena in a Clinical Case with Psychosis and Gaming Disorder

Associations between internet addiction and psychological problems among adolescents: description and possible explanations

Sensory and cognitive intrusions with and without media content during the COVID-19 pandemic: Isolation, media use, sleep and stress factors

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