Search results for: GAMING ADDICTION

• Frequency of use, moral incongruence, and religiosity and their relationships with self-perceived addiction to pornography, internet use, social networking and online gaming

  Publication

  • K. Lewczuk
  • I. Nowakowska
  • K. Lewandowska
  • M. N. Potenza
  • M. Gola

  - ADDICTION - Year 2021

  Background and Aims Moral incongruence involves disapproval of a behaviour in which people engage despite their moral beliefs. Although considerable research has been conducted on how moral incongruence relates to pornography use, potential roles for moral incongruence in other putative behavioural addictions have not been investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of moral incongruence in self‐perceived...

• Laxer Clinical Criteria for Gaming Disorder May Hinder Future Efforts to Devise an Efficient Diagnostic Approach: A Tree-Based Model Study

  Publication

  • H. M. Pontes
  • B. Schivinski
  • M. Brzozowska-Woś
  • V. Stavropoulos

  - Journal of Clinical Medicine - Year 2019

  Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) has been recognized in May 2013 and can be evaluated using the criteria developed by American Psychiatric Association (APA). The present study investigated the role each IGD criteria plays in diagnosing disordered gaming. A total of 3,377 participants (mean age 20 years, SD = 4.3 years) participated in the study. The data collected was scrutinized to detect patterns...

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