ArticleJournal of behavioral addictions2020
Internet use disorders: What's new and what's not?. •.
Article in Journal of behavioral addictions, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Motivational brief interventions for adolescents and young adults with Internet use disorders: A randomized-controlled trial.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Trial
- Development and Psychometric Validation of the Brain Rot Scale: Measuring Digital Content Overconsumption Among Generation Alpha and Generation Z.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Construction and validation of the motives for smartphone use questionnaire.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2025Article
- Assessing Short-Video Dependence for e-Mental Health: Development and Validation Study of the Short-Video Dependence Scale.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Internet Gaming Disorder in Children and Adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Dark Triad of Personality and Problematic Smartphone Use: A Preliminary Study on the Mediating Role of Fear of Missing Out.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Can Watching Online Videos Be Addictive? A Qualitative Exploration of Online Video Watching among Chinese Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
This commentary critiques the recent paper by Montag et al. (2019) and (i) argues that there are a number of issues that are presented as contemporary but have been discussed in the internet addiction literature for over 20 years, (ii) argues that generalized internet use disorder (IUD)/smartphone use disorder (SmUD) and specific IUD/SmUD may mean different things to different scholars, (iii) suggests that online activities that involve content creation often utilize nonmobile devices, and (iv) suggests that there are some potentially problematic online behaviors that are not included as major activities in the proposed in Montag et al.'s taxonomy of internet-related problematic behaviors.
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