A Qualitative Analysis of Online Gaming Addicts in Treatment

By Marta Beranuy, Xavier Carbonell, Mark D. Griffiths. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2013

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Video Game Addiction, Engagement and Symptoms of Stress, Depression and Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Coping (2016, background): “In a number of qualitative studies video game addiction has been associated with a lack of coping skills, or described, by both researchers and gamers, as an escape-based coping strategy (Allison et al. 2006; Beranuy et al. 2013; Wan and Chiou 2006; Wood and Griffiths 2007).”
Internet Gaming Addiction: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research (2012, methodology): “Moreover, the addiction symptoms were similar to those experienced by persons addicted to substances, including salience, mood modification, loss of control, craving, and serious adverse effects, and a variety of further psychosocial problems (Beranuy et al. 2010).”
Internet Gaming Disorder Treatment: A Case Study Evaluation of Four Different Types of Adolescent Problematic Gamers (2019, unknown): “…in that they were all treatment-seeking individuals, the fact that they were all male concurs with previous studies showing that female IGD appears to be rare (e.g., Kuss and Griffiths 2012a, b) and that those in treatment for IGD are also predominantly single males (e.g., Beranuy et al. 2012).”