ReviewAddictive behaviors reports2025
Toward the classification of social media use disorder: Clinical characterization and proposed diagnostic criteria.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Problematic social media use and adverse childhood experiences: A systematic review.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Pooled it
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- Acute effects of high-intensity interval training on inhibitory control and prefrontal network topology in problematic social media users: An fNIRS study.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2026Article
- Problematic gaming, problematic social media use, and psychological well-being in adolescents: exploring networks of symptoms in 10 European countries.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Validation of the DSM-5 internet gaming disorder framework for clinical diagnosis of problematic social media usage.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Can implicit associations and approach-avoidance tendencies be observed in both problematic social network use and tobacco use disorder? Evidence from a laboratory study.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- On TikTok use disorder tendencies, fear of missing out and everyday cognitive failure.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Support system networks: how support systems shape problematic social media use, mental health, and substance use in Czech adolescents.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2026Article
- Prolonged social media use is not fundamentally problematic in a Hungarian representative study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Problematic social media use, everyday memory failures, and prospective and retrospective lapses: evidence from a large sample of young adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Association between mobile social networks usage and mental health and social behaviours in medical students in southern Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Longitudinal and Bidirectional Relations Between Problematic Social Media Use and Cognitive Failures.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2025Article
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Abstract
Empirical studies and theoretical models highlight that problematic use of social media can lead to significant functional impairments in several domains, such as social, relational, occupational, and psychological functioning, as well as physical health. However, social media use disorder is not currently recognized as an official disorder in major diagnostic systems, limiting comparability among studies, precise prevalence estimation, and ad-hoc preventive and treatment program development. The present work aims to classify social media use disorder as a pathological condition sharing main mechanisms and maladaptive patterns with addictive behaviors. We discuss diagnostic criteria for social media use disorder by integrating peculiar features of this maladaptive behavior with criteria for substance use disorders and behavioral addictions from major diagnostic systems (i.e., DSM-5 and ICD-11). Moreover, we address some controversies related to the classification of social media use disorder as a behavioral addiction and highlight literature findings indicating social media use disorder shares main alterations in mechanisms and processes characterizing addiction (i.e., maladaptive activation of reward systems and impairment of inhibitory control mechanisms). Despite the lack of studies including clinical populations and the need for future research to validate the proposed criteria and refine knowledge of the mechanisms underlying this condition, our work provides a structured framework for classifying and identifying social media use disorder.
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