Working towards an international consensus on criteria for assessing internet gaming disorder: A critical commentary on Petry et al. (2014)

Addiction

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 167-175

  Griffiths, Mark D ^a   van Rooij, Antonius J ^b   Kardefelt Winther, Daniel ^c   Starcevic, Vladan ^d   Király, Orsolya ^e   Pallesen, Ståle ^f   Müller, Kai ^g   Dreier, Michael ^g   Carras, Michelle ^h   Prause, Nicole ⁱ   King, Daniel L ^j   Aboujaoude, Elias ^k   Kuss, Daria J ^a   Pontes, Halley M ^a   Lopez Fernandez, Olatz ^l   Nagygyorgy, Katalin ^e   Achab, Sophia ^m   Billieux, Joël ^l   Quandt, Thorsten ⁿ   Carbonell, Xavier ^o   Ferguson, Christopher J ^p   Hoff, Rani A ^q   Derevensky, Jeffrey ^r   Haagsma, Maria C ^s   Delfabbro, Paul ^j   Coulson, Mark ^t   Hussain, Zaheer ^u   Demetrovics, Zsolt ^e   more..

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^g JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^m GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^o UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^p STETSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^s UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^t MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^u UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Gaming addiction; Gaming addiction assessment; IGD assessment; Internet gaming disorder; Problematic gaming; Video game addiction

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PSYCHOLOGY; VIDEO GAME;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84951816666     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.13057     Document Type: Article

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