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ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2018

When addiction symptoms and life problems diverge: a latent class analysis of problematic gaming in a representative multinational sample of European adolescents.

Michelle Colder Carras, Daniel Kardefelt-Winther

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Article in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Different Typologies of Gamers Are Associated with Mental Health: Are Students DOOMed?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Michelle Colder CarrasDepartment of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 624 N. Broadway St, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. mcarras@jhu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0750-524X
Daniel Kardefelt-WintherKarolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Johns Hopkins University · USKarolinska Institutet · SE

Funding

NIDA Epidemiology Training Program: Johns Hopkins UniversityT32DA007292 · NIDA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI RENEE M. JOHNSON, Brion S Maher · 1993 to 2026
$17.7M
PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32MH014592 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HEATHER E VOLK, Peter P. Zandi · 1985 to 2026
$8.5M
National Institute of Mental Health 5T32MH014592-39NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA007292NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH014592
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The proposed diagnosis of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) in DSM-5 has been criticized for "borrowing" criteria related to substance addiction, as this might result in misclassifying highly involved gamers as having a disorder. In this paper, we took a person-centered statistical approach to group adolescent gamers by levels of addiction-related symptoms and gaming-related problems, compared these groups to traditional scale scores for IGD, and checked how groups were related to psychosocial well-being using a preregistered analysis plan. We performed latent class analysis and regression with items from IGD and psychosocial well-being scales in a representative sample of 7865 adolescent European gamers. Symptoms and problems matched in only two groups: an IGD class (2.2%) having a high level of symptoms and problems and a Normative class (63.5%) having low levels of symptoms and problems. We also identified two classes comprising 30.9% of our sample that would be misclassified based on their report of gaming-related problems: an Engaged class (7.3%) that seemed to correspond to the engaged gamers described in previous literature, and a Concerned class (23.6%) reporting few symptoms but moderate to high levels of problems. Our findings suggest that a reformulation of IGD is needed. Treating Engaged gamers as having IGD when their poor well-being might not be gaming related may delay appropriate treatment, while Concerned gamers may need help to reduce gaming but would not be identified as such. Additional work to describe the phenomenology of these two groups would help refine diagnosis, prevention and treatment for IGD.

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AdolescentBehavior, AddictiveEuropeFemaleHumansInternetMaleMental DisordersVideo GamesAdolescenceHazardous gamingInternet gaming disorderProblematic gamingVideo games

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PMID29368254
PMCPMC5895528
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