Personality and Internet gaming disorder: a systematic review of recent literature
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Individuals with higher aggressiveness and narcissistic personality traits may be more prone to develop gaming disorder.
“Individuals with higher aggressiveness and narcissistic personality traits may be more prone to develop gaming disorder (Gervasi et al., 2017).”
High impulsivity is associated with gaming disorder.
“Temperamental features, such as high impulsivity, have also been associated with gambling (Dowling et al., 2017), gaming (Gervasi et al., 2017; Kuss et al., 2018; Ryu et al., 2018)”
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- Authors
- Gervasi, A. M., La Marca, L., Costanzo, A., Pace, U., Guglielmucci, F., & Schimmenti, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Verona (IT)
- Università degli Studi di Enna Kore (IT)
- University of Turin (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Schimmenti, Adriano
- Venue
- Current Addiction Reports
- Published
- 2017-09
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 293-307
- ISSN
- 2196-2952 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2696646052
- Cited by
- 137
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 2.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Addiction Reports (publishedVersion)
- Iris (Roma Tre University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Keywords
- internet gaming disorder, personality traits, neuroticism, impulsivity, aggression, personality disorders
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