The relationship between gaming disorder and addiction requires a behavioral analysis

Abstract

In their position paper, Aarseth et al. (2016) bring to light several timely issues concerning the categorization of gaming disorder as a form of addiction and as a discrete mental disorder. In our commentary, we welcome their caution toward this move and their discussion of the equivocal scientific data in its support and the potential negative consequences for gamers. We suggest that a more heterogeneous approach is required for understanding any behavioral addiction, as concepts from gambling appear to be more relevant for aspects of mobile gaming than for video games more generally. In addition to a greater need for clinical research, we argue that studying gaming at a different level of analysis than the epidemiological study is required to gain a meaningful understanding of the harm video games may or may not entail.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.6.2017.045
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences
Additional Information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Addiction,Behavior,Gambling,Gaming,Medicine (miscellaneous),Clinical Psychology,Psychiatry and Mental health
Publication ISSN: 2063-5303
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2024 08:12
Date Deposited: 15 Oct 2018 10:23
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PURE Output Type: Review article
Published Date: 2017-08-17
Accepted Date: 2017-06-17
Authors: James, Richard J.E.
Tunney, Richard J. (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-4673-757X)

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