Internet Addiction - Time to be Taken Seriously?

By Mark D. Griffiths. 2000

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Subfields: Communication, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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A Psychometric Comparison of the Internet Addiction Test, the Internet-Related Problem Scale, and Self-Diagnosis (2011, positive): “As Grifﬁths 19 observed, there have been some key problems with the addiction criteria that have been used in most previous studies.”
The uses and abuses of Facebook: A review of Facebook addiction (2014, background): “For example, it does not provide a cut-off point for recognising problematic use (Spraggins, 2009), nor does it measure how long the use has been problematic (Griffiths, 2000).”
Integrating Technology Addiction and Use: An Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Users (2011, background): “Instead, the Internet becomes a place where users conduct their addictive behaviors, and they become addicted to a particular IT artifact (Griffiths 2000), including online auction websites.”
Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Online Gaming Are Not the Same: Findings from a Large Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample (2014, neutral): “9,11 In short, these latter activities can only take place online.”
Does the construct of Internet addiction reflect a single entity or a spectrum of disorders (2017, background): “…with a lack of social support and/or social isolation and it was hypothesised that the manifestations of “pathology” would not exist in the absence of the Internet (Davis 2001), thus establishing a link between generalized pathological Internet use and “addiction to the Internet” (Griffiths 2000).”
An Overview of Problematic Gaming (2015, neutral): “This is analogous to the argument by Griffiths (2000) that there is a fundamental difference between addiction to the Internet and addictions on the Internet.”
Assessment of internet gaming disorder in clinical research: Past and present perspectives (2014, background): “One of the issues raised by this conceptualization was that many of the addicted users are not ‘internet addicts’ per se, but just used the internet as a medium to fuel other addictions (54,57).”
Addiction to Social Media and Attachment Styles: A Systematic Literature Review (2019, background): “As stated long ago by Griffiths (2000), these online activities can become excessive, leading to deleterious behaviors in a minority of individuals.”
Clinical psychology of Internet addiction: a review of its conceptualization, prevalence, neuronal processes, and implications for treatment (2015, neutral): “7,8 Psychological phenomena of any kind, whether addictive or not, usually encompass various complex mechanisms and behavioral properties that are better understood from a biological, psychological, and/or sociological point of view, making it difficult to provide standalone definitions for such…”
Social networking addiction: an overview of preliminary findings (2014, background): “Rather than becoming addicted to the medium per se, a minority of Internet users may develop an addiction to specific online activities (Griffiths, 2000).”
A ‘components’ model of addiction within a biopsychosocial framework (2005, background): “These include behaviours as diverse as gambling (Griffiths, 1995), overeating (Orford, 2001), sex (Carnes, 1983), exercise (Terry, Szabo, & Griffiths, 2004), videogame playing (Griffiths, 2002), love (Peele, & Brodsky, 1975), Internet use (Griffiths, 2000) and work (Griffiths, 2005).”