Working towards an international consensus on criteria for assessing internet gaming disorder: a critical commentary on Petry et al. (2014)
By Mark D. Griffiths, A. V. Van Rooij, Daniel Kardefelt-Winther, Vladan Starcevic, Orsolya Király, Ståle Pallesen, Kai W. Müller, Michael Dreier, Michelle Colder Carras, N. Prause and 18 more. Addiction, 2016
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This commentary paper critically discusses the recent debate paper by Petry et al. (2014) that argued there was now an international consensus for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). Our collective opinions vary considerably regarding many different aspects of online gaming. However, we contend that the paper by Petry and colleagues does not provide a true and representative international community of researchers in this area. This paper critically discusses and provides commentary on (i) the representativeness of the international group that wrote the ‘consensus’ paper, and (ii) each of the IGD criteria. The paper also includes a brief discussion on initiatives that could be taken to move the field towards consensus. It is hoped that this paper will foster debate in the IGD field and lead to improved theory, better methodologically designed studies, and more robust empirical evidence as regards problematic gaming and its psychosocial consequences and impact.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science
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In Applied Psychology
- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Mark D. Griffiths
- Orsolya Király
- Róbert Urbán
- C. Ferguson
- Matteo Ballabio
- A. Quartiroli
- Daria J. Kuss
In Education
- Mark D. Griffiths
- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Orsolya Király
- C. Ferguson
- Róbert Urbán
- Matteo Ballabio
- A. Quartiroli
- Scott E. Caplan
In Sociology and Political Science
- Zsolt Demetrovics
- Mark D. Griffiths
- Orsolya Király
- C. Ferguson
- A. V. Van Rooij
- Anthony M. Bean
- Rune Kristian Lundedal Nielsen
- Róbert Urbán
Citations in the corpus
- Video Game Addiction: The Push To Pathologize Video Games (2017, background): “This, in turn, resulted in 28 other scholars writing a reply that, in fact, no such consensus existed: Many scholars were concerned that the framing of IGD was problematic (Griffiths et al., 2016).”
- Do gaming motives mediate between psychiatric symptoms and problematic gaming? An empirical survey study (2017, background): “At present, there is no consensus on IGD criteria, definition, and conceptualisation (Hellman et al. 2012; Brus 2013; Kardefelt-Winther 2014a; Kir aly et al. 2015; Griffiths et al. 2016).”
- The Association Between Internet Gaming Disorder and Impulsivity: A Systematic Review of Literature (2019, unknown): “In future studies, validated instruments specifically designed to assess IGD should be adopted and tested in different settings to improve cross-cultural reliability (Griffiths et al. 2014).”