Over the past two decades, there has been increasing interest in the impact of internet use
and growing concern about whether problematic use of the internet (PUI) constitutes an …

Pathological video-gaming, or its proposed DSM-V classification of “Internet Use Disorder”,
is of increasing interest to scholars and practitioners in allied health disciplines. This …

Over the last decade, research into “addictive technological behaviors” has substantially
increased. Research has also demonstrated strong associations between addictive use of …

Previous research on gaming disorder (GD) has highlighted key methodological and
conceptual hindrances stemming from the heterogeneity of nomenclature and the use of non …

There is an ongoing debate in the literature whether problematic Internet use (PIU) and
problematic online gaming (POG) are two distinct conceptual and nosological entities or …

Internet addiction is a recently recognized disorder which has received increasing attention
worldwide over the past two decades. This focus has led to the development of several …

The rise in social media use among emerging adults in the United States has been well-
documented, but researchers are still working on identifying how the type—not just the …

Internet addiction (IA) is currently becoming a serious mental health problem. The aim of this
study was to estimate the prevalence of IA among undergraduate medical students and …

Although excessive and compulsive shop** has been increasingly placed within the
behavioral addiction paradigm in recent years, items in existing screens arguably do not …

The main objective of the present study was to investigate the relationships between
Problematic Internet Use (PIU) and time spent online, online activities and psychopathology …