A Qualitative Analysis of Online Gaming Addicts in Treatment

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 149-161

  Beranuy, Marta ^a   Carbonell, Xavier ^a,c   Griffiths, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Facultat de Psicologia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gaming addiction; Gaming addiction treatment; Internet addiction; Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games; MMORPG addiction; Qualitative study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875325113     PISSN: 15571874     EISSN: 15571882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11469-012-9405-2     Document Type: Article

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