Problematic internet use: Proposed classification and diagnostic criteria

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 207-216

  Shapira, Nathan A ^a   Lessig, Mary C ^a   Goldsmith, Toby D ^a   Szabo, Steven T ^b   Lazoritz, Martin ^a   Gold, Mark S ^a   Stein, Dan J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Addiction; Comorbidity; Impulse control disorder; Mania; Pathological gambling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; EATING DISORDERS; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; INTERNET; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; PARAPHILIAS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0038340045     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.10094     Document Type: Article

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