Pathological video-gaming among youth: A prospective study examining dynamic protective factors

Liau, Albert K.; Choo, Hyekyung; Li, Dongdong; Gentile, Douglas A.; Sim, Timothy; Khoo, Angeline

doi:10.3109/16066359.2014.987759

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“…The profile of a video gamer at risk of addiction seem to be male, impulsive, with low social and emphatic competences, poor emotional regulation skills, and raised in a single-parent family (Gentile et al 2011;Lemmens et al 2011;Rehbein and Baier 2013). Conversely, personal strengths, warm family environment, parent-child connectedness, high degree of parental supervision, high level of social integration in the class, and school-related well-being appear to act as protective factors (Liau et al 2015;Rehbein and Baier 2013).…”

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“…Research seems to relate Video Game addiction to several adverse outcomes, which are depression, anxiety, social phobia, conduct problems and lower academic achievement, and ADHD (Brunborg et al 2014;Gentile et al 2011;Liau et al 2015;Schmitt and Livingston 2015;Schou Andreassen et al 2016). However, some researchers hypothesize that the correlation found between gaming addiction and the abovementioned outcomes could be in fact reciprocal (Gentile et al 2012).…”

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Internet Gaming Addiction in Adolescence: Risk Factors and Maladjustment Correlates

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Several studies have documented the existence of a behavioral addiction related to Video Games, which appears to be similar to other forms of addiction (gambling and substance-related) in terms of characteristics and consequences. Literature about this topic has suffered from the lack of a standard definition of this disorder before the publication of DSM-5. Thus, the prevalence of the disorder and its characteristics at the moment are unclear. The present research aimed to investigate the differences between sub-clinical problematic Video Game (VG) use and Internet use and clear Internet gaming disorder (IGD) and Internet addiction in terms of gender, amount of time spent gaming, preferential coping strategies, adjustment problems, interpersonal relations, and to identify risk factors that predict a problematic engagement in video gaming. We administered a survey containing measures about coping strategies, interpersonal relations, internalizing/externalizing problems, and Internet and Video Game addiction to 612 Italian students recruited in the four main regions of the country (age range 9-19; M = 13.94). Results show that 15.2% of participants showed a subclinical problematic use of Video Games, while those with a clear IGD were 2.1% (n = 13); 16.3% of them showed a sub-clinical problematic Internet use, while full-criteria Internet addiction was found in 5.9% of the sample. IGD appears to be linked to various dysfunctional outcomes including a wide range of psychological symptoms and behavioral and social problems. Also, problematic video gamers tend to preferentially adopt dysfunctional coping Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Internet Gaming Addiction in Adolescence: Risk Factors and Maladjustment Correlates

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“…Studies on problematic gaming among adolescents have rapidly increased in recent years (Desai, Krishnan‐Sarin, Cavallo, & Potenza, ; Kuss & Griffiths, 2012a,b; Lemmens, Valkenburg, & Peter, ; Rehbein & Baier, ). However, longitudinal studies are scarce, and the existing studies on the stability and trajectories of problematic gaming are ambiguous (Gentile et al., ; King, Delfabbro, & Griffiths, ; Konkolÿ Thege, Woodin, Hodgins, & Williams, ; Liau et al., ; Scharkow, Festl, & Quandt, ; Van Rooij, Schoenmakers, Vermulst, Van Den Eijnden, & Van De Mheen, ). In 2013, when Internet gaming disorder (IGD) was included in the DSM‐5, section 3 “Conditions for further studies” (American Psychiatric Association, ), it was stated that several aspects needed to be evaluated further before considering IGD as an actual diagnosis.…”

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A longitudinal study of the individual‐ and group‐level problematic gaming and associations with problem gambling among Swedish adolescents

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AimThe aims of this study were to investigate the long‐term stability of problematic gaming among adolescents and whether problematic gaming at wave 1 (W1) was associated with problem gambling at wave 2 (W2), three years later.MethodsData from the SALVe cohort, including adolescents in Västmanland born in 1997 and 1999, were accessed and analyzed in two waves W2, N = 1576; 914 (58%) girls). At W1, the adolescents were 13 and 15 years old, and at W2, they were 16 and 18 years old. Adolescents self‐rated on the Gaming Addiction Identification Test (GAIT), Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI), and gambling frequencies. Stability of gaming was determined using Gamma correlation, Spearman's rho, and McNemar. Logistic regression analysis and general linear model (GLM) analysis were performed and adjusted for sex, age, and ethnicity, frequency of gambling activities and gaming time at W1, with PGSI as the dependent variable, and GAIT as the independent variable, to investigate associations between problematic gaming and problem gambling.ResultsProblematic gaming was relative stable over time, γ = 0.739, p ≤ .001, ρ = 0.555, p ≤ .001, and McNemar p ≤ .001. Furthermore, problematic gaming at W1 increased the probability of having problem gambling three years later, logistic regression OR = 1.886 (95% CI 1.125–3.161), p = .016, GLM F = 10.588, η2 = 0.007, p = .001.ConclusionsProblematic gaming seems to be relatively stable over time. Although associations between problematic gaming and later problem gambling were found, the low explained variance indicates that problematic gaming in an unlikely predictor for problem gambling within this sample.

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“…If excessive internet gaming does not lead to adverse consequences, then we agree with Kardefelt‐Winther that it should not be classified as a ‘behavioral addiction’, and we would take this argument one step further—it should not be a mental disorder at all. Our study and others , however, provide increasingly compelling evidence that, in at least a small minority of players, the consequences are extreme.…”

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Systematic Validation of Internet Gaming Disorder Criteria Needs to Start Somewhere: A Reply to Kardefelt‐Winther

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Pathological video-gaming among youth: A prospective study examining dynamic protective factors

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Internet Gaming Addiction in Adolescence: Risk Factors and Maladjustment Correlates

Internet Gaming Addiction in Adolescence: Risk Factors and Maladjustment Correlates

A longitudinal study of the individual‐ and group‐level problematic gaming and associations with problem gambling among Swedish adolescents

Systematic Validation of Internet Gaming Disorder Criteria Needs to Start Somewhere: A Reply to Kardefelt‐Winther

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