'Behavioral' Addictions: Do They Exist?

By C. Holden. Science, 2001

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Pathological video-gaming among youth: A prospective study examining dynamic protective factors (2015, background): “More recently, researchers have started using definitions of pathological video-gaming similar to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria for pathological gambling or gambling disorder as both are considered behavioural addictions (Holden, 2001).”
Excessive Eating and Compulsive Buying Behaviours in Women: An Empirical Pilot Study Examining Reward Sensitivity, Anxiety, Impulsivity, Self-Esteem and Social Desirability (2012, background): “drugs, gambling and sex (Holden 2001).”
The association between Internet addiction and psychiatric disorder: A review of the literature (2012, background): “This phenomenon has been described as Internet addiction or problematic Internet use [23,50], and is suggested to be one type of behavioral addiction [18].”
The Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS): Some Psychometric Properties (2009, neutral): “…typical symptoms of CIU (see Table 2): loss of control (items 1, 2, 5, and 9); preoccupation (including mental and behavioral preoccupation) (items 4, 6, and 7); withdrawal symptoms (item 14); coping or mood modification (items 12 and 13); and conflict (including inter-and intrapersonal conflict)…”
Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction (2020, background): “Second, functional neuroimaging studies have shown that the same areas of the brain that are active in other substance and behavioral addictions are active in the brains of those who meet the diagnostic criteria for internet addiction (Brand, Young, & Laier, 2014; Han, Bolo, Daniels, Arenella, Lyoo,”
Problematic Internet use or Internet addiction? (2007, background): “The concept of addiction, though traditionally used to describe a physical dependence on a substance (Holden, 2001), has been applied to excessive use of the Internet.”
Cell-Phone Addiction: A Review (2016, background): “If we include the psychological and neurobiological bases of addictions, be they related to substances or behaviors (1, 2, 107, 108, 148, 156, 157), it is natural to observe the coexistence of both, as found in research on the Internet (125).”
Problematic internet use: Proposed classification and diagnostic criteria (2003, neutral): “…model; however, the validity and clinical usefulness of classifying certain mental disorders and behaviors such as compulsive spending, gambling, hypersexuality, kleptomania, overeating, etc. under the rubric of addictions has been questioned [Bradley, 1990; Holden, 2001; Miele et al., 1990].”
Curiosity and the pleasures of learning: Wanting and liking new information (2005, background): “Drug addiction, as briefly mentioned earlier, is considered to reflect irrational wanting (Robinson & Berridge, 2003; Wyvell & Berridge, 2001), as well as so-called ``behavioural addictions'' like gambling (Holden, 2001) and compulsive shopping (Berridge, 2004).”
Integrating Technology Addiction and Use: An Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Users (2011, background): “Despite this disagreement, most researchers argue that technology addiction is a special type of behavioral addiction (Holden 2001) that encapsulates a psychological dependency on the use of an IT.”
Should addictive disorders include non-substance-related conditions? (2006, background): “None the less, there has been a recent shift returning toward consideration of non-substance-related disorders as addictive in nature [3,4].”