Impaired disengagement of attention from computer-related stimuli in Internet Gaming Disorder: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Heuer, Anna; Mennig, Manuel; Schubö, Anna; Barke, Antonia

doi:10.1556/2006.2020.00100

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“…Distraction frequency has been associated with attention impulsiveness, which is triggered by anxiety and takes the form of attentional bias (23), as has been supported in the smartphone and social media use literature (101,249,251). Attention impulsiveness has also been associated with habitual checking (121), chronic media multitasking and attention decrements (12) as well as with impaired disengagement in Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) (252). In conditions where learning is of low interest, attentional impulsivity is associated with increased interruptions, reduced lecture comprehension, low motivation, and fluid intelligence (35,36), to the detriment of academic performance and tasks requiring sustained attention (37).…”

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Exploring the Dimensions of Smartphone Distraction: Development, Validation, Measurement Invariance, and Latent Mean Differences of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)

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Background: Distraction is a functional emotion regulation strategy utilized to relieve emotional distress. Within the attention economy perspective, distraction is increasingly associated with digital technology use, performance impairments and interference with higher-order cognitive processes. Research on smartphone distraction and its association with problematic smartphone use is still scarce and there is no available psychometric assessment tool to assess this cognitive and emotive process parsimoniously.Method: The present study reports the development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, construct validity, gender invariance, and latent mean differences. The study was conducted in a sample of British university students (N = 1,001; M = 21.10 years, SD = 2.77).Results: The 16-item SDS was best conceptualized in a four-factor model solution comprising attention impulsiveness, online vigilance, emotion regulation, and multitasking. Construct validity was established using relevant psychosocial and mental health measures, with SDS scores being moderately associated with deficient self-regulation and problematic social media use. Gender measurement invariance was achieved at the configural, metric, and scalar levels, and latent mean differences indicated that females had significantly higher means than males across all four SDS latent factors.Discussion: The SDS presents with several strengths, including its theoretical grounding, relatively short length, and sound psychometric properties. The SDS enables the assessment of distraction, which appears to be one of the pathways to problematic smartphone use facilitating overuse and overreliance on smartphones for emotion regulation processes. The assessment of distraction in relation to problematic use in vulnerable populations may facilitate interventions that could encourage metacognition and benefit these groups by allowing sustained productivity in an increasingly disrupted work and social environment.

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Exploring the Dimensions of Smartphone Distraction: Development, Validation, Measurement Invariance, and Latent Mean Differences of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)

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“…As a unique behavioral addiction, IAD shares neural vulnerabilities with drug addiction and gambling addiction. Zhou and his colleagues tested whether individuals with IAD presented similar characteristics of working memory, executive function, and impulsivity to those presented by pathological gambling (PG) patients [ 18 ]. The results suggested that individuals with IAD and PG patients present deficiencies in working memory, executive dysfunction, and impulsivity, and individuals with IAD are more impulsive than PG patients.…”

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“…Converging evidence suggests that IAD is associated with various changes in cognitive functions, such as perception [ 15 , 16 ], attention [ 17 , 18 , 19 ], memory [ 20 ], and executive function [ 2 , 7 , 20 ]. Inhibitory control, one of the executive functions, emerged as an important aspect of IAD [ 21 ].…”

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Slow-Wave EEG Activity Correlates with Impaired Inhibitory Control in Internet Addiction Disorder

Liu

Yan

et al. 2022

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Impaired inhibitory control is a core feature of internet addiction disorder (IAD). It is therefore of interest to determine the neurophysiological markers associated with it. The present study aimed to find such biomarkers with a resting-state electroencephalogram (EEG). We specifically used scores on the Chinese Internet Addiction Scale revised edition (CIAS-R) to divide 46 participants into two groups: the IAD group (>53, n = 23) and control group (<46, n = 23). Both behavioral aspects (Go/NoGo responses and impulsivity) and EEG were measured in the lab. The results suggest that the IAD group presented a decreased slow-wave (1–8 Hz) absolute power across the whole brain. The slow-wave activities in the frontal areas were also correlated with the commission error rate in the Go/NoGo task in the IAD group. These results imply that the frontal slow-wave EEG activity may serve as a neurophysiological marker of IAD, helping to understand the underlying neural mechanisms of inhibitory control deficits in IAD and point to possible interventions.

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“…This may be because of the conceptual distinction between facilitated attentional engagement with gaming-related stimuli (reflecting a disproportionate tendency for attention to be captured by gaming-related stimuli), and impaired attentional disengagement from gaming-related stimuli (reflecting an excessive predilection for attention to be held by gaming-related stimuli). Specifically, Heuer et al (2021) found that IGD gamers demonstrated longer reaction times than casual gamers. Further, they demonstrated increased sustained posterior contralateral negativity (SPCN) amplitude to computer-related stimuli in a visual search task, indicating that the disengagement of attention from addiction-related stimuli was impaired in IGD individuals.…”

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“…Theories posit that a combination of external and internal factors contributes to game craving and addiction development ( Brand, Young, Laier, Wölfling, & Potenza, 2016 , 2019 ). Game craving has been conceptualized as an outcome of classical conditioning ( Heuer, Mennig, Schubö, & Barke, 2021 ). Specifically, when environmental cues (e.g., the sight of game advertisements and the sound of game characters) have been repeatedly associated with playing games, they become conditioned stimuli that elicit gaming urges.…”

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Attentional biases and daily game craving dynamics: An ecological momentary assessment study

Zhou

et al. 2022

JBA

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Background and aimsTheories posit that the combination of external (e.g. cue exposure) and internal (e.g. attention biases) factors contributes to the development of game craving. Nevertheless, whether different components of attentional biases (namely, engagement bias and disengagement bias) play separate roles on game craving has not been fully elucidated. We aimed to examine the associations between two facets of attentional biases and game craving dynamics under a daily life setting.MethodsParticipants (110 regular internet game players) accomplished the modified attentional assessment task in the laboratory, after which they entered a 10-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to collect data on their momentary game craving and occurrence of game-related events at five different time points per day.ResultsWe found that occurrence of game-related events was significantly associated with increased game craving. Moreover, attentional disengagement bias, instead of engagement bias, bore on the occasional level variations of game craving as moderating variables. Specifically, attentional disengagement bias, not engagement bias, was associated with a greater increase in game craving immediately after encountering a game-related event; however, neither attentional engagement bias nor disengagement bias was associated with the craving maintenance after a relatively long period.Discussion and conclusionsThe present study highlights the specific attentional processes involved in game craving dynamics, which could be crucial for designing interventions for attentional bias modification (ABM) in Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) populations.

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Impaired disengagement of attention from computer-related stimuli in Internet Gaming Disorder: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence

Cited by 24 publications

References 66 publications

Exploring the Dimensions of Smartphone Distraction: Development, Validation, Measurement Invariance, and Latent Mean Differences of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)

Exploring the Dimensions of Smartphone Distraction: Development, Validation, Measurement Invariance, and Latent Mean Differences of the Smartphone Distraction Scale (SDS)

Slow-Wave EEG Activity Correlates with Impaired Inhibitory Control in Internet Addiction Disorder

Attentional biases and daily game craving dynamics: An ecological momentary assessment study

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