ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2015
Commentary on: Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research. Excessive behaviors are not necessarily addictive behaviors.
Article in Journal of behavioral addictions, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Excessive Exercise-A Meta-Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Methodological issues in behavioral addictions' research: A call for an unbiased analysis of excessive behaviors.Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Review
- Prevalence of Suicidal Behavior and Associated Clinical Correlates in Patients with Behavioral Addictions.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Problematic overstudying: Studyholism or study addiction?Journal of behavioral addictions · 2018Article
- Development of short-form and screening cutoff point of the Smartphone Addiction Inventory (SPAI-SF).International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2017Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsThe commentary aims to provide clarity to the article "Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research."
methodsWe provide another viewpoint for the important issues of behavior addiction.
resultThe course of behavior addiction should be further studied. The criteria of withdrawal and tolerance of behavior addiction are ill-defined and need to be further evaluated.
conclusionsThe etiology, course, presentation, and functional impairment of behavior addiction should be validated by evidence-based data before being defined as a disorder.
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