ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2017
Stepping back to advance: Why IGD needs an intensified debate instead of a consensus.
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- Identifying individuals in need of help for their uncontrolled gaming: A narrative review of concerns and comments regarding gaming disorder diagnostic criteria.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Review
- More stringent criteria are needed for diagnosing internet gaming disorder: Evidence from regional brain features and whole-brain functional connectivity multivariate pattern analyses.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Article
- Laxer Clinical Criteria for Gaming Disorder May Hinder Future Efforts to Devise an Efficient Diagnostic Approach: A Tree-Based Model Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2019Article
- Aggressive Video Games are Not a Risk Factor for Future Aggression in Youth: A Longitudinal Study.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2019Article
- Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorder: Two Case Reports Using a Developmental Framework.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- A weak scientific basis for gaming disorder: Let us err on the side of caution.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2018Article
- DSM-5 diagnosis of Internet Gaming Disorder: Some ways forward in overcoming issues and concerns in the gaming studies field.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2017Article
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Abstract
Based on their analysis of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) criteria, Kuss, Griffiths, and Pontes (2017) come to the conclusion that the current situation can be described as "chaos and confusion." Their assessment is not an exaggeration. It can be argued that there are even more issues, on logical/definitional and political/social levels: (a) the IGD diagnosis is lacking a well-defined object, (b) the cause and effect cannot be differentiated outside lab conditions, (c) the social and political effects of declaring a social behavior as a disease are worrying, and (d) a rushed diagnosis may construct an addiction with potentially harmful effects on (formerly) healthy populations. Instead of closing the debate by declaring a consensus and codifying IGD in the DSM, an undogmatic, intensified, and broader discussion is needed.
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