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A cognitive-behavioral model of pathological Internet use
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A cognitive-behavioral model of Pathological Internet Use is introduced, which implies a more important role of cognitions in PIU, and describes the means by which PIU is both developed and maintained, and provides a framework for the development of cognitive- behavioral interventions for PIU.About:
This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2001-03-01. It has received 2200 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Internet addiction disorder.read more
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Problematic Internet use and psychosocial well-being: development of a theory-based cognitive–behavioral measurement instrument
TL;DR: Results suggest that one's preference for computer-mediated social interaction, as opposed to face-to-face interaction, plays a role in the etiology, development, and outcomes of generalized PIU.
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Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study
Douglas A. Gentile,Hyekyung Choo,Albert K. Liau,Timothy Sim,Dongdong Li,Daniel Fung,Angeline Khoo +6 more
TL;DR: This study adds important information to the discussion about whether video game “addiction” is similar to other addictive behaviors, demonstrating that it can last for years and is not solely a symptom of comorbid disorders.
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Internet addiction: a systematic review of epidemiological research for the last decade.
TL;DR: The results indicate that a number of core symptoms of Internet addiction appear relevant for diagnosis, which assimilates Internet addiction and other addictive disorders and also differentiates them, implying a conceptualisation as syndrome with similar etiology and components, but different expressions of addictions.
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Preference for Online Social Interaction A Theory of Problematic Internet Use and Psychosocial Well-Being
TL;DR: The results support the current hypothesis that that individuals’ preference for online, rather than face-to-face, social interaction plays an important role in the development of negative consequences associated with problematic Internet use.
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Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model.
Matthias Brand,Matthias Brand,Kimberly S. Young,Christian Laier,Klaus Wölfling,Marc N. Potenza +5 more
TL;DR: Although the hypotheses regarding the mechanisms underlying the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders, summarized in the I-PACE model, must be further tested empirically, implications for treatment interventions are suggested.
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Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
TL;DR: In cognitive therapy, a person's psychological difficulties stem from his own erroneous assumptions and faulty concepts of himself and the world as mentioned in this paper, and such a person can be helped to recognize and correct distortions in thinking that cause his emotional disturbance.
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Internet paradox: A social technology that reduces social involvement and psychological well-being?
Robert E. Kraut,Michael Patterson,Vicki Lundmark,Sara Kiesler,Tridas Mukophadhyay,William L. Scherlis +5 more
TL;DR: Greater use of the Internet was associated with declines in participants' communication with family members in the household, declines in the size of their social circle, and increases in their depression and loneliness.
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Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression.
TL;DR: The hopelessness theory is silent about the time lag between formation of hopelessness and onset of the symptoms of depression as mentioned in this paper, however, the hopelessness cause, as opposed to a hopelessness subtype, of depression has not been examined.
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Responses to depression and their effects on the duration of depressive episodes.
TL;DR: The authors proposed that the ways people respond to their own symptoms of depression influence the duration of these symptoms and found that people who engage in ruminative responses to depression, focusing on their symptoms and the possible causes and consequences of their symptoms, will show longer depressions than people who take action to distract themselves from their symptoms.
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Online sexual compulsivity: Getting tangled in the net
TL;DR: In this article, the types of online users proposed in this article include recreational users, sexual compulsives, and at risk users (consisting of two subtypes: the Depressive Type and the Stress Reactive Type). Assessment techniques and treatment strategies for each type of user are provided and suggestions for future research are proposed.