ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2017
Investigating the differential effects of social networking site addiction and Internet gaming disorder on psychological health.
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- The Relationship Between Social Media Addiction, Depression, Stress, and Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Pooled it
- Disruptions of white matter in adolescents with internet game disorder: evidence from seed-based d mapping.Brain imaging and behavior · 2025Pooled it
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- Neuropsychological Deficits in Disordered Screen Use Behaviours: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Social Media Usage and Development of Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: A Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Social Networks Use Disorder and Associations With Depression and Anxiety Symptoms: A Systematic Review of Recent Research in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Cognitive deficits in problematic internet use: meta-analysis of 40 studies.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2019Pooled it
- Person, Affective, Cognitive, and Executive Dimensions Associated with Problematic Social Media Use, Internet Gaming Disorder, and Their Co-Occurrence in Young Adults.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Problematic social media use, mental health, and substance use in Czech adolescents: the comparative role of extracurricular activities - findings from the 2022 HBSC study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- Time Out: A Scoping Review of Non-Duration Based Social Media Use Measures and Adolescent Mental Health.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Leisure Screen Time, Internet Gaming Disorder, and Mental Health Among Chinese Adolescents: Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Validation of the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) for forest firefighters: implications for human-technology interaction and occupational safety in the future of work.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Gaming disorder in the ICD-11: the state of the game.BMC psychiatry · 2025Review
- Association between game addiction and lifetime psychotic-like experiences among high school students: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Bidirectional associations of problematic social media use and problematic gaming with mental health difficulties and strengths in adolescents: Sex and social support as potential moderators.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Article
- Social media burnout and social anxiety as antecedents of discontinuous usage in the stressor-strain-outcome framework.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the mediating role of insomnia on the nexus between social media addiction and mental health among university students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Novel rat model of gaming disorder: assessment of social reward and sex differences in behavior and c-Fos brain activity.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Relationship between soccer physical activity enjoyment and internet addiction among adolescents: the chain mediating effect of emotional self-efficacy and athlete participation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Proteus effect avatar profiles: Associations with disordered gaming and activity levels.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background and aims Previous studies focused on examining the interrelationships between social networking site (SNS) addiction and Internet gaming disorder (IGD) in isolation. Moreover, little is known about the potential simultaneous differential effects of SNS addiction and IGD on psychological health. This study investigated the interplay between these two technological addictions and ascertained how they can uniquely and distinctively contribute to increasing psychiatric distress when accounting for potential effects stemming from sociodemographic and technology-related variables. Methods A sample of 509 adolescents (53.5% males) aged 10-18 years (mean = 13.02, SD = 1.64) were recruited. Results It was found that key demographic variables can play a distinct role in explaining SNS addiction and IGD. Furthermore, it was found that SNS addiction and IGD can augment the symptoms of each other, and simultaneously contribute to deterioration of overall psychological health in a similar fashion, further highlighting potentially common etiological and clinical course between these two phenomena. Finally, the detrimental effects of IGD on psychological health were found to be slightly more pronounced than those produced by SNS addiction, a finding that warrants additional scientific scrutiny. Discussion and conclusion The implications of these results are further discussed in light of the existing evidence and debates regarding the status of technological addictions as primary and secondary disorders.
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