ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2016
Experiential Avoidance and Technological Addictions in Adolescents.
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- The association between the Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder: A meta-analysis.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Pooled it
- Mobile Phone Use and Mental Health. A Review of the Research That Takes a Psychological Perspective on Exposure.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Associations between parental marital conflict and short-video addiction among Chinese adolescents: a cross-sectional chain mediation analysis of experiential avoidance and anxiety.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Latent profile analysis of mindfulness and experiential avoidance associated with social media use disorder.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- A Chain mediation model linking experiential avoidance, cognitive flexibility, negative emotions, and sleep quality in university students.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Depression and social media addiction among teenagers in a longitudinal study with dual moderation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A comparative interventional study on the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy, emotion-focused therapy, and attachment-based therapy in improving emotion regulation among adolescents with digital game addiction.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Parental Emotional Neglect and Internet Addiction Among Left-Behind Children: The Parallel Mediating Roles of Deviant Peer Affiliation and Experiential Avoidance.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Experiential avoidance and smartphone addiction in adolescents: a study using multi-model machine learning and mediation analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Characterizing heterogeneity in emotional and behavioral problems: Latent class analysis with 507,188 children and adolescents and associations with mobile gaming addiction behavior.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- [Association between technology addiction and academic performance in Latin American university students in 2024]Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Medicas (Cordoba, Argentina) · 2025Observational
- Physical activity moderates the mediating role of depression between experiential avoidance and Internet addiction.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Social Media Use as an Impulsive 'Escape From Freedom'.Psychological reports · 2025Article
- Self-Compassion and Smartphone Addiction Tendency Among College Students: The Chain-Mediating Effect of Self-Concept Clarity and Experiential Avoidance.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of emotional intelligence on problematic social media use among Chinese college students: mediating role of social exclusion and experiential avoidance.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Evaluation of Problematic Video Game Use in Adolescents with ADHD and without ADHD: New Evidence and Recommendations.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comorbidity, Eating Behaviors and Smartphone Addiction in Italian Nurses' Characteristics.Endocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets · 2024Article
- Indulging in Smartphones in Times of Stress: A Moderated Mediation Model of Experiential Avoidance and Trait Mindfulness.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Social Anxiety and Social Networking Service Addiction Proneness in University Students: The Mediating Effects of Experiential Avoidance and Interpersonal Problems.Psychiatry investigation · 2022Article
- Harm avoidance, daily stress, and problematic smartphone use in children and adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
Background and aims This study focuses on the use of popular information and communication technologies (ICTs) by adolescents: the Internet, mobile phones, and video games. The relationship of ICT use and experiential avoidance (EA), a construct that has emerged as underlying and transdiagnostic to a wide variety of psychological problems, including behavioral addictions, is examined. EA refers to a self-regulatory strategy involving efforts to control or escape from negative stimuli such as thoughts, feelings, or sensations that generate strong distress. This strategy, which may be adaptive in the short term, is problematic if it becomes an inflexible pattern. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore whether EA patterns were associated with addictive or problematic use of ICT in adolescents. Methods A total of 317 students of the Spanish southeast between 12 and 18 years old were recruited to complete a questionnaire that included questions about general use of each ICTs, an experiential avoidance questionnaire, a brief inventory of the Big Five personality traits, and specific questionnaires on problematic use of the Internet, mobile phones, and video games. Results Correlation analysis and linear regression showed that EA largely explained results regarding the addictive use of the Internet, mobile phones, and video games, but not in the same way. As regards gender, boys showed a more problematic use of video games than girls. Concerning personality factors, conscientiousness was related to all addictive behaviors. Discussion and conclusions We conclude that EA is an important construct that should be considered in future models that attempt to explain addictive behaviors.
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