Aim Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is a serious disorder leading to and maintaining
pertinent personal and social impairment. IGD has to be considered in view of …

AIM: To provide a comprehensive overview of clinical studies on the clinical picture of
Internet-use related addictions from a holistic perspective. A literature search was conducted …

Males have been proposed to be more vulnerable to internet addiction (IA) than females.
However, males and females may differ with respect to specific patterns and types of internet …

In recent years, researchers have been showing an increasing interest in the
conceptualization of problematic Facebook use, and its associations with individual …

This study aimed to verify whether achieving a distinctive academic performance is unlikely
for students at high risk of smartphone addiction. Additionally, it verified whether this …

In the last decade, Internet usage has grown tremendously on a global scale. The increasing
popularity and frequency of Internet use has led to an increasing number of reports …

Internet addiction has become a serious behavioral health problem in Asia. However, there
are no up-to-date country comparisons. The Asian Adolescent Risk Behavior Survey …

Abstract Background: Pathological Internet use (PIU) has been conceptualized as an
impulse-control disorder that shares characteristics with behavioral addiction. Research has …

There is an ongoing debate in the literature whether problematic Internet use (PIU) and
problematic online gaming (POG) are two distinct conceptual and nosological entities or …

Objective This study examined the relationships between parental mediation and Internet
addiction, and the connections to cyberbullying, substance use, and depression among …