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Online gaming motives, family relationships, and personality among Indian youth

Industrial Psychiatry Journal
Background: Youth involvement in gaming has become an important concern for mental health professionals due to its significant impact on functionality and relationships.
S J Ajith, Gitanjali Narayanan, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Nitin Anand, Akash Vishwakarma   +4 more
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Dysfunctional impulsivity in online gaming addiction and engagement

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace, 2016
Impulsivity has been shown to be related to both substance- and non-substance addictions. In the case of internet gaming addiction, on one hand, higher impulsivity and sensation seeking have been reported in problematic online gamers.
Lukas Blinka, Kateřina Škařupová, Kristina Mitterova   +2 more
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Video-Gaming Among High School Students: Health Correlates, Gender Differences, and Problematic Gaming

, 2010
OBJECTIVE: Video game playing may negatively impact youth. However, the existing literature on gaming is inconsistent and often has focused on aggression rather than the health correlates of gaming and the prevalence ...
Rani A. Desai, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Dana Cavallo, Marc N. Potenza   +3 more
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Overview of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on problematic video game use and gaming disorder in adolescents and young adults

EClinicalMedicine
Summary: Background: Problematic video game use and disordered gaming are increasingly recognized adolescent health concerns. Methods: This overview summarizes assessment, epidemiology, risk factors, health outcomes, and treatment of problematic and ...
Jason M. Nagata, Christiane K. Helmer, Oliver H. Huang, Sahana Nayak, Kevin Bao, Stephanie Zhang, Kevin Handoko, Elizabeth J. Li, Megan A. Moreno, Jason M. Lavender   +9 more
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The development of the Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Online gaming has become increasingly popular. However, this has led to concerns that these games might induce serious problems and/or lead to dependence for a minority of players.
Demetrovics, Zsolt, Nagygyörgy, Katalin, Farkas, Judit, Oláh, Attila, Griffiths, Mark D., Urbán, Róbert, Kökönyei, Gyöngyi, Felvinczi, Katalin, Pápay, Orsolya   +8 more
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The role of attachment anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty in gaming during adolescence: A two-wave longitudinal study

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Adolescents with attachment anxiety can compensate via gaming for their unmet needs of closeness, reassurance, and emotion regulation. However, individual factors linking attachment anxiety to compensation via gaming are still unclear.
Camilla Gregorini, Claudia Marino, Alessandro Giardina, Joël Billieux, Gioia Bottesi, Chiara Sacchi, Erika Pivetta, Alessio Vieno, Natale Canale   +8 more
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The impact of video gaming on mental health and psychosocial functioning in children and adolescents: a narrative review

Journal of Education, Health and Sport
Background. Video gaming is one of the most common leisure activities among children and adolescents worldwide. Growing concerns about problematic gaming and Gaming Disorder have increased research on the impact of gaming on mental health and ...
Aleksandra Karolina Schmidt, Anna Kudłacik, Magdalena Franków, Kornel Adrian Jarosz, Aleksandra Regina Żmuda, Maria Całusińska-Skowron, Julia Łukasik, Klaudia Jeziorowska, Karolina Bałdys, Oktawian Kaczmarek   +9 more
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A cross-genre study of online gaming: player demographics, motivation for play, and social interactions among players [PDF]

, 2012
One key limitation with the contemporary online gaming research literature is that much of the published research has tended to examine only one genre of games (i.e., Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games).
Griffiths, MD, Ghuman, D
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Moderated Mediation in Problematic Digital Gaming Among Adolescents: Self-Esteem, Social Anxiety, Self-Concealment, and Sensation Seeking

Children
Background: Problematic digital gaming among adolescents is a common behavioral issue that has negative consequences on school functioning and mental health.
İbrahim Erdoğan Yayla, Samet Makas, Lokman Koçak, Murat Yıldırım, Kübra Dombak   +4 more
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Understanding the Emergence of Comorbidity between Problematic Online Gaming and Gambling: A Network Analysis Approach

Brain Sciences
Background/Objectives: Problematic online gaming and gambling tend to co-occur. The exact mechanisms underlying this phenomenon and the potential effects of gender differences remain unknown.
Marta Błoch, Błażej Misiak
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