An Investigation into Video Game Addiction in Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Medicina, 2020 Background and Objectives: Game addiction is an emerging problem in public health. A gaming disorder is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior.
Maria Rosaria Esposito +6 more
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Validation of the Farsi version of the video-game addiction scale for children: its associations with social media addiction, internet addiction and executive functions [PDF]
BMC PsychologyAddiction to video games can negatively affect cognitive and social functioning. We aim to validate the Video Game Addiction Scale for Children (VASC) among Iranian children aged 8–13 in this study.
Nima Rabiei +3 more
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Prevalence and Predictors of Video Game Addiction: A Study Based on a National Representative Sample of Gamers. [PDF]
Int J Ment Health Addict, 2016 Video gaming has become a popular leisure activity in many parts of the world, and an increasing number of empirical studies examine the small minority that appears to develop problems as a result of excessive gaming.
Wittek CT +6 more
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Video Game Addiction in Young People (8–18 Years Old) after the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Grey Area of Addiction and the Phenomenon of “Gaming Non-Pathological Abuse (GNPA)” [PDF]
EpidemiologiaIntroduction: In the literature, video game addiction in youths is correlated with dysfunctional symptoms of anxiety, emotional disorders, and mood disorders, and the pandemic period of 2020–2022 has favored the aggravation of this behavioral addiction ...
Domenico Piccininno, Giulio Perrotta
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Explanatory model of behavioral adaptation in video game addiction among adolescents in urban and rural Peru: the mediating role of anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThe study aimed to determine the relationships between behavioral adaptation and video game addiction, mediated by anxiety, in Peruvian adolescents from urban and rural areas, using a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach.MethodsThis ...
Julio Cesar Huamani-Cahua +4 more
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Core and peripheral criteria of video game addiction in the game addiction scale for adolescents. [PDF]
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw, 2015 Assessment of video game addiction often involves measurement of peripheral criteria that indicate high engagement with games, and core criteria that indicate problematic use of games. A survey of the Norwegian population aged 16-74 years (N=10,081, response rate 43.6%) was carried out in 2013, which included the Gaming Addiction Scale for Adolescents (
Brunborg GS +3 more
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Low 2D:4D values are associated with video game addiction. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Androgen-dependent signaling regulates the growth of the fingers on the human hand during embryogenesis. A higher androgen load results in lower 2D:4D (second digit to fourth digit) ratio values. Prenatal androgen exposure also impacts brain development.
Johannes Kornhuber +7 more
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News Feature: Is video game addiction really an addiction? [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017 Zastrow M.
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Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2021 Background: This study represented the first investigation of video/computer game addiction in Ghana and Africa. We investigated the prevalence of video game addiction and some of its correlates.
Daniel Miezah +4 more
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Islamic Guidance and Counseling Journal, 2021 Video game addiction is recognized as a mental health problem caused by uncontrolled access to video gaming platforms. Proper assistance and counseling programs based on the addiction causing factors are required to reduce the tendencies of video game ...
Yudhi Purwa Nugraha, Awalya Awalya, Mulawarman Mulawarman
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