Ontological diversity in gaming disorder measurement: a nationally representative registered report

Karhulahti, Veli‐Matti; Vahlo, Jukka; Martončik, Marcel; Munukka, Matti; Koskimaa, Raine; Bonsdorff, Mikaela von

doi:10.1080/16066359.2022.2115033

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“…No disclosed basis or cutoff. Finnish translations of all scales were used (Männikkö et al 2015;Männikkö et al 2019;Karhulahti et al 2022b). Note on other scales: GAD-7 = General Anxiety Disorder (Spitzer et al 2006).…”

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“…While we highlight, again, that we did not carry out clinical interviews and thus do not make diagnostic claims, the present findings provide evidence for a reality where adults in very different life situations seek treatment for diverse types of gaming problems, some of which are characterisable as clinically relevant experiences to more severe degrees and longer periods than others (as we also found in Karhulahti et al 2023). Due to a lack of clinical validation studies with the current quantitively used gaming disorder scales (see Carragher et al 2022), it remains unknown which of the processes and types of gaming problems presented here-if any-the commonly reported epidemiological estimates signify (for relevant ontological literature, see Haslam 2003;Davidson et al 2022;Karhulahti et al 2022b).…”

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Life Thinning and Gaming Disorder: A Longitudinal Qualitative Registered Report

Karhulahti,

Siutila,

Vahlo

et al. 2023

Peer Community Journal

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The academic debates regarding the psychiatric relevance of gaming disorder continue largely because the lived experiences of treatment-seekers remain mostly unstudied. This registered report addresses the above research gap with a longitudinal design that pursues a comparative descriptive understanding of how intensive gaming experiences evolve in both clinical and non-clinical life situations. Accompanied by a rich health survey, interpretative phenomenological analysis was adapted to understand in-depth interview data from treatment-seeking (n=5) and esports-playing (n=4) participants, the latter of which did not experience any gaming-related health problems. The interviews were carried out as a 1-year follow-up. The study finds intensive relationships with gaming to be experienced through multidimensional cyclicality. For treatment-seekers, this manifests as a shift in problem processing that involves a search for new gaming and life meanings; meanwhile, for esports-playing participants, the meanings of gaming evolve and can rapidly adapt to unexpected life events. We propose life thinningand resilience integration processes as working models that can help better describe and theoretically explain how some individuals end up seeking gaming-related treatment, whereas for others gaming continues to be part of their identity and resilience. The findings call for more qualitative registered reports with treatment-seekers and other intensively gaming people from different cultures to better understand the spectrum of intensive gaming phenomenologically-and specifically, what it means for people to seek treatment for their gaming.

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Life Thinning and Gaming Disorder: A Longitudinal Qualitative Registered Report

Karhulahti,

Siutila,

Vahlo

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“…When modeling four IGD/GD scales (GAS7, IGDT10, GDT, and THL1) within one network, Billieux and Fournier ( 2022 ) found a strong item‐level construct overlap between the scales. This, however, does not eliminate the possibility that the scales could identify distinct populations (Karhulahti et al., 2022 ; Ko et al., 2020a ), potentially due to differing scoring methods (monothetic vs. polythetic cut‐offs, different thresholds, etc.). The DSM‐5 or ICD‐11‐based IGD/GD central role in the networks does not appear to be affected by the addition of the additional diagnostic features.…”

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“…The DSM‐5's description of IGD have resulted in the development of various screening scales with inconsistencies in symptom selection and operationalization (Karhulahti et al., 2021 ; King, Chamberlain, et al., 2020 ). However, the usage of screening measures based on different ontologies (including DSM‐5 and ICD‐11) may identify different groups of individuals (Ko et al., 2020a ; Starcevic et al., 2020 ) with distinct psychological and health characteristics (Karhulahti et al., 2022 ). Moreover, within the same ontological definition, diverse ways of operationalizing the same symptoms can substantially affect the relationships between the symptoms (Adamkovič et al., 2023 ).…”

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Network analysis of additional clinical features of (Internet) gaming disorder

Martončik,

Adamkovič,

Ropovik

2024

Int J Methods Psych Res

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ObjectivesThere are dozens of screening instruments purporting to measure the (Internet) gaming disorder (IGD/GD). The two prominent diagnostic manuals, DSM‐5 and ICD‐11, list several additional diagnostic or clinical features and problems (e.g., neglect of sleep, neglect of daily duties, health deterioration) that should co‐occur or be caused by the IGD/GD. It remains unclear how specific IGD/GD operationalizations (different screening scales) are related to these functional impairments.MethodsTo explore this, data on six measures of IGD/GD (IGDS9‐SF, GDSS, GDT, GAMES test, two self‐assessments) and 18 additional diagnostic features were collected from a sample of 1009 players who play digital games at least 13 h per week. A network approach was utilized to determine which operationalization is most strongly associated with functional impairment.ResultsIn most of the networks, IGD/GD consistently emerged as the most central node.ConclusionThe similar centrality of IGD/GD, irrespective of its definition (DSM‐5 or ICD‐11) or operationalization, provides support for the valid comparison or synthesis of results from studies that used instruments coming from both DSM‐5 and ICD‐11 ontologies, but only if the goal is to evaluate IGD/GD relationships to other phenomena, not the relationships between the symptoms themselves.

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“…In a nationally representative registered report, Karhulahti et al (2022) identified marked differences in the prevalence and overlap of problem gaming as assessed by measures derived from different ontologies, underscoring the need for a clearer, universal definition of problem gaming. The similar results obtained by Anthony et al (2023), despite reviewing measures all ostensibly derived from the same ontology (i.e., IGD criteria from Section 3 of the DSM–5 ), provide a more drastic illustration of the opacity of current problem gaming conceptualizations.…”

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What really is problem video gaming? A need to reexamine the conceptualization of a fuzzy construct.

Coelho¹,

Vieira²,

Keough³

et al. 2023

Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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An estimated 2.7 billion adults globally play video games, and this population continues to grow (Accenture, 2021). Although representing a harmless pastime for most, formal diagnoses indicating excessive or harmful video gaming are estimated among 1.96 to 3.05% of adolescents and adults globally (Stevens et al., 2021). Consequently, there is a need for reliable and valid measurement of problem video gaming (herein referred to as "problem gaming"). In their paper, Anthony et al. ( 2023) provide a comprehensive review of the psychometric properties of measures of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), developed based on diagnostic criteria outlined in Section 3 of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The authors identified 22 measures of problem gaming which, despite all operationalizing the same DSM-5 criteria, displayed marked heterogeneity in the criteria included, elements of criteria emphasized, and wording of items. Hyoun S. Kim https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0804-0256 The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Sophie G. Coelho served as lead for writing-original draft and served in a supporting role for conceptualization. Jenna L. Vieira served in a supporting role for conceptualization and writing-original draft. Matthew T. Keough contributed equally to conceptualization and served in a supporting role for writing-review and editing. Hyoun S. Kim contributed equally to conceptualization and served in a supporting role for writingreview and editing.

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Ontological diversity in gaming disorder measurement: a nationally representative registered report

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Life Thinning and Gaming Disorder: A Longitudinal Qualitative Registered Report

Life Thinning and Gaming Disorder: A Longitudinal Qualitative Registered Report

Network analysis of additional clinical features of (Internet) gaming disorder

What really is problem video gaming? A need to reexamine the conceptualization of a fuzzy construct.

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