Commentary on: Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research: The diagnostic pitfalls of surveys: If you score positive on a test of addiction, you still have a good chance not to be addicted

Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 151-154

  Maraz, Aniko ^a   Király, Orsolya ^a   Demetrovics, Zsolt ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Assessment; Behavioural addiction; Diagnosis; Negative predictive value; Positive predictive value; Sensitivity; Severity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84949981403     PISSN: 20625871     EISSN: 20635303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/2006.4.2015.026     Document Type: Article

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