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Understanding Online Gaming Addiction and Treatment Issues for Adolescents
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In this paper, the authors explore the emergence of online gaming addiction and its impact on individuals and families and present warning signs of online game addi... and their impact on individual and family.Abstract:
Massive Muti-user Online Role-Playing Games or MMORPGs as they are often called are one of the fastest growing forms of Internet addiction, especially among children and teenagers. Like an addiction to alcohol or drugs, gamers show several classic signs of addiction (Grusser, Thalemann, and Griffiths, 2007). They become preoccupied with gaming, lie about their gaming use, lose interest in other activities just to game, withdrawal from family and friends to game, and use gaming as a means of psychological escape (Leung, 2004). This paper explores the emergence of online gaming addiction and its impact on individuals and families. This paper reviews the nature of online games and what makes them addictive among some players. As computers are relied upon with greater frequency, detecting and diagnosing online gaming addiction may be difficult for clinicians, especially as symptoms of a possible problem may be masked by legitimate use of the Internet. This paper reviews the warning signs of online gaming addi...read more
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Internet Gaming Addiction: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research
Daria J. Kuss,Mark D. Griffiths +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature review of Internet gaming addiction, focusing on symptoms traditionally associated with substance-related addictions, including mood modification, tolerance and salience.
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The Internet gaming disorder scale
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Psychosocial causes and consequences of pathological gaming
TL;DR: It is suggested that displacement of real-world social interaction resulting from pathological use of video games may deteriorate existing relationships, which could explain the increase in adolescent gamers' feelings of loneliness.
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Internet addiction in adolescents: prevalence and risk factors
TL;DR: The use of online gaming and social applications increased the risk for Internet addiction, whereas extraversion and conscientiousness appeared as protective factors in high frequency online gamers and support the inclusion of ‘Internet addiction’ in the DSM-V.
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Online gaming addiction in children and adolescents: A review of empirical research.
Daria J. Kuss,Mark D. Griffiths +1 more
TL;DR: Empirical evidence indicates that for some adolescents, gaming addiction exists and that as the addiction develops, online gaming addicts spend increasing amounts of time preparing for, organizing, and actually gaming.
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