Video Game and Internet Addiction: Is there a Need for Differentiation ?

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Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Online Gaming Are Not the Same: Findings from a Large Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample (2014, unknown): “28 The multivariate multiple regression model also demonstrated a distinction between the two online behaviors.”
Internet Gaming Addiction in Adolescence: Risk Factors and Maladjustment Correlates (2018, background): “Consistent with the study performed by Rehbein and Mößle (2013), the present research found that Internet and VG addiction mainly occurred independently among Italian adolescents, although 4.5% of the participants fulfilled the criteria for both of them.”
Assessment of internet gaming disorder in clinical research: Past and present perspectives (2014, background): “In line with the notion of addictions on the internet and addiction to the internet (54), Rehbein and Möble (98) asserted that gaming addiction and generalized internet addiction should be assessed separately, since these, despite being somewhat related, are different phenomena.”
Does the construct of Internet addiction reflect a single entity or a spectrum of disorders (2017, background): “This statement reflects conceptual carelessness and runs contrary to the evidence that Internet gaming disorder and Internet addiction are different entities (Király et al. 2014, Rehbein and Mößle 2013).”