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How can we conceptualize behavioral addiction without pathologizing common behaviors

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An operational definition of behavioural addiction is proposed together with a number of exclusion criteria, to avoid pathologizing common behaviours and provide a common ground for further research.
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This article is published in Addiction.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 385 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Behavioral addiction.

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Social Networking Sites and Addiction: Ten Lessons Learned.

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Is smartphone addiction really an addiction

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A weak scientific basis for gaming disorder: Let us err on the side of caution

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Online activities, prevalence of Internet addiction and risk factors related to family and school among adolescents in China.

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The association between problematic smartphone use, depression and anxiety symptom severity, and objectively measured smartphone use over one week

TL;DR: Investigation of self-reported levels of PSU, depression, anxiety, and daily depressive mood relate to objectively measured smartphone use over one week found depression and anxiety severity were not related to screen time minutes, but negatively correlated with frequency of phone screen unlocking.
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