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Halley M. Pontes
Researcher at Birkbeck, University of London
Publications - 129
Citations - 6833
Halley M. Pontes is an academic researcher from Birkbeck, University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Addiction. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 112 publications receiving 4592 citations. Previous affiliations of Halley M. Pontes include University of Tasmania & Nottingham Trent University.
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Measuring DSM-5 internet gaming disorder
TL;DR: The nine items of the IGDS-SF9 are valid, reliable, and proved to be highly suitable for measuring IGD, which is a new nine-item short-form scale to assess Internet Gaming Disorder.
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Working towards an international consensus on criteria for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder: a critical commentary on Petry et al (2014)
Mark D. Griffiths,Antonius J. van Rooij,Daniel Kardefelt-Winther,Vladan Starcevic,Orsolya Király,Ståle Pallesen,Kai W. Müller,Michael Dreier,Michelle Colder Carras,Nicole Prause,Daniel L. King,Ellias Aboujaoude,Daria J. Kuss,Halley M. Pontes,Olatz Lopez Fernandez,Katalin Nagygyörgy,Sophia Achab,Joël Billieux,Thorsten Quandt,Xavier Carbonell,Christopher J. Ferguson,Rani A. Hoff,Jeffrey L. Derevensky,Maria C. Haagsma,Paul Delfabbro,Mark Coulson,Zaheer Hussain,Zsolt Demetrovics +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the recent debate paper by Petry et al. that argued there was now an international consensus for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD), however, they do not provide a true and representative international community of researchers in this area.
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Gaming disorder: Its delineation as an important condition for diagnosis, management, and prevention
John B. Saunders,Wei Hao,Jiang Long,Daniel L. King,Karl Mann,Mira Fauth-Bühler,Hans-Jürgen Rumpf,Henrietta Bowden-Jones,Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar,Tom Wai-Hin Chung,Elda Chan,Norharlina Bahar,Sophia Achab,Hae Kook Lee,Marc N. Potenza,Nancy M. Petry,Daniel Tornaim Spritzer,Atul Ambekar,Jeffrey L. Derevensky,Mark D. Griffiths,Halley M. Pontes,Daria J. Kuss,Susumu Higuchi,Satoko Mihara,Sawitri Assangangkornchai,Manoj Kumar Sharma,Ahmad El Kashef,Patrick Ip,Michael Farrell,Emanuele Scafato,Natacha Carragher,Vladimir Poznyak +31 more
TL;DR: Gaming disorder shares many features with addictions due to psychoactive substances and with gambling disorder, and functional neuroimaging shows that similar areas of the brain are activated.
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The conceptualisation and measurement of DSM-5 Internet Gaming Disorder: the development of the IGD-20 Test.
TL;DR: The present findings support the viability of the IGD-20 Test as an adequate standardised psychometrically robust tool for assessing internet gaming disorder and represents the first step towards unification and consensus in the field of gaming studies.
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Validation of the ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10) and evaluation of the nine DSM-5 internet gaming disorder criteria
Orsolya Király,Pawel Sleczka,Halley M. Pontes,Róbert Urbán,Mark D. Griffiths,Zsolt Demetrovics +5 more
TL;DR: Findings of the IRT analysis suggest IGD is manifested through a different set of symptoms depending on the level of severity of the disorder, and IGDT-10 is a valid and reliable instrument to assess IGD as proposed in the DSM-5.