Problematic Internet use or Internet addiction?

By Peter M. Yellowlees, Shayna Marks. Computers in Human Behavior, 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Video Game Addiction: Past, Present and Future (2012, background): “It should also be noted that given the lack of consensus as to whether video game addiction exists and/or whether the term ‘addiction’ is the most appropriate to use, some researchers have instead used terminology such as ‘excessive’ or ‘problematic’ to denote the harmful use of video games [24].”
Factor structure for Young's Internet Addiction Test: A confirmatory study (2008, background): “Young and her associates have done a lot of work on defining Internet addiction (Yellowlees & Marks, 2007), and the IAT is one of the early diagnostic scales that has been developed.”
Internet addiction in adolescents: Prevalence and risk factors (2013, unknown): “…of the engagement in specific online activities, rather than focusing on Internet addiction per sé, researchers have now identified a number of activities that can be engaged in excessively online that may lead to symptoms similar to substance-related addictions (Yellowlees & Marks, 2007).”
Does the construct of Internet addiction reflect a single entity or a spectrum of disorders (2017, background): “Yellowlees and Marks (2007) also favoured a view that Internet addiction relates to specific online activities.”
Mobile phone use and stress, sleep disturbances, and symptoms of depression among young adults - a prospective cohort study (2011, background): “Internet addiction has been proposed as a specific psychiatric illness [14]; however, this form of problematic Internet use could also be considered to share elements with impulse control disorders and be related to the specific activities done on the Internet (such as gambling) rather than the Inte”
Integrating Technology Addiction and Use: An Empirical Investigation of Online Auction Users (2011, background): “Note that consistent with Yellowlees and Marks (2007) who distinguish between addiction to specific uses of the Internet and addiction to the Internet in general, instead of measuring general consumption tendencies, general Internet addiction, and general gambling tendencies, we focused on…”
Internet Addiction and Delay Discounting in College Students (2010, background): “Even in the face of such debate, though, there is growing agreement that excessive Internet use shares some key features with other behavior patterns that are regarded as addictive (Goldsmith & Shapira, 2006; Treuer, Fabian, & Furedi, 2001; Yellowlees & Marks, 2007).”