Introduction to Behavioral Addictions

By J. Grant, Marc N. Potenza, Aviv Weinstein, D. Gorelick. The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2010

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Background: Several behaviors, besides psychoactive substance ingestion, produce short-term reward that may engender persistent behavior, despite knowledge of adverse consequences, i.e., diminished control over the behavior. These disorders have historically been conceptualized in several ways. One view posits these disorders as lying along an impulsive-compulsive spectrum, with some classified as impulse control disorders. An alternate, but not mutually exclusive, conceptualization considers the disorders as non-substance or “behavioral” addictions. Objectives: Inform the discussion on the relationship between psychoactive substance and behavioral addictions. Methods: We review data illustrating similarities and differences between impulse control disorders or behavioral addictions and substance addictions. This topic is particularly relevant to the optimal classification of these disorders in the forthcoming fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). Results: Growing evidence suggests that behavioral addictions resemble substance addictions in many domains, including natural history, phenomenology, tolerance, comorbidity, overlapping genetic contribution, neurobiological mechanisms, and response to treatment, supporting the DSM-V Task Force proposed new category of Addiction and Related Disorders encompassing both substance use disorders and non-substance addictions. Current data suggest that this combined category may be appropriate for pathological gambling and a few other better studied behavioral addictions, e.g., Internet addiction. There is currently insufficient data to justify any classification of other proposed behavioral addictions. Conclusions and Scientific Significance: Proper categorization of behavioral addictions or impulse control disorders has substantial implications for the development of improved prevention and treatment strategies.

Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Epidemiology

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Cell-Phone Addiction: A Review (2016, background): “Essentially, there is one line of inquiry that considers addiction to be an extensive concept, not limited to substances, that has a foundation in its neurobiologic basis (1, 107, 108).”
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Relationship between Psychological Well-Being and Smartphone Addiction of University Students (2016, background): “In the case of behavioral addiction, the person cannot prevent himself from doing the relevant behavior and may show tension and unrest he faces with prohibition (Grant et al., 2010).”
Rules? Role Model? Relationship? The Impact of Parents on Their Children’s Problematic Mobile Phone Involvement (2019, methodology): “The operationalization is based on the mobile phone involvement questionnaire (MPIQ) of Walsh et al. (2010) that rests on the conceptualizations of behavioral addictions (e.g., Brown, 1997; Rosenberg & Fedder, 2014).”
Validation and psychometric properties of a short version of Young's Internet Addiction Test (2013, positive): “Craving and withdrawal symptoms in combination with problems in social life, which are also very important facets of Internet addiction (Grant et al., 2010) are particularly reflected by the items of the second factor of the s-IAT.”
The Smartphone as a Pacifying Technology (2020, positive): “…a behavioral addiction (Alter 2017; Bernroider, Krumay, and Margiol 2014; De-Sola Guti (cid:2) errez, Rodr (cid:2) ıguez de Fonseca, and Rubio 2016; Grant et al. 2010; Roberts, Pullig, and Manolis 2015)—a compulsive desire to engage in a behavior despite the risks of social, physical, or financial…”
Integrating psychological and neurobiological considerations regarding the development and maintenance of specific Internet-use disorders: An Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model. (2016, positive): “…together with substance-use disorders as addictive behaviors (cf. Chamberlain et al., 2015; Derbyshire and Grant, 2015; Fauth-Bühler and Mann, 2015; Fauth-Bühler et al., 2016; Grant et al., 2006, 2010; Grant and Chamberlain, 2015; Kraus et al., 2016; Potenza, 2006; Robbins and Clark, 2015).”
Hedonic Eating Goals and Emotion: When Sadness Decreases the Desire to Indulge (2014, background): “First, we know that the negative long-term consequences of indulgence impact consumers in a number of ways, as reflected in consumer overspending (Baumeister 2002), weight gain and obesity (Sharpe, Staelin, and Huber 2008; Wang and Beydoun 2007), superfluous materialism (Ordabayeva and Chandon 2011)”
The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study. (2016, background): “, 2015) as anxiety, depression, and addictions usually covary (Grant et al., 2010; Kessler, Chiu et al., 2005; Lieb, 2015).”
Analyzing the Links Between Problematic Social Media Use, Dark Triad Traits, and Self-esteem (2018, background): “On the other hand, based on the significant correlations reported between behavioral addictions and personality (Andreassen et al. 2013; Carmody 2012; Grant et al. 2010), DT traits are thought to be associated with PSMU.”
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