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“Additionally, the estimates of Facebook, shopping, food, and gaming addictions are largely consistent with other studies based on similar methodology [45,79,87,92,106].”
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“The prevalence of Internet gaming disorder among school-aged children is between 0.7 and 15.6% (Feng et al., 2017).”
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“A meta-analysis [13] estimates that the prevalence of IGD is between 0.7% and 15.6%.”
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Subtyping treatment-seeking gaming disorder patients
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“…a global incidence estimate in a broad range (between 0.2% and 25%, depending on the composition of the samples and the assessment tools used) (Darvesh et al., 2020; Feng et al., 2017), with higher rates in Central Eastern Europe and lower rates in Northern and Western Europe (Chia et al., 2020).”
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“Internet gaming disorder (IGD) has recently emerged as a highly pervasive public health issue globally, with the overall prevalence ranging from 0.7% to 15.6% across naturalistic populations (Feng et al. 2017).”
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“Its prevalence estimates range between 0.7% and 15.6%, with South Korea reporting around 5.9% of affected adolescents [11].”
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“9% based on the previous studies [73], and 1.”
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“The worldwide prevalence of gaming disorder is estimated at being up to 4.7% (Feng et al. 2017) and the present study looked at two different cut-off points using the same scale to meet criteria for gaming disorder.”
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Five-Factor Model Traits as Predictors of Pathological Gaming among Selected Filipino Gamers
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“%) obtained in studies on naturalistic populations (Feng et al., 2017).”
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“The technological revolution and widespread access to online gaming have contributed to an increase in IGD cases, particularly among adolescents and young adults (Feng et al., 2017; Paulus et al., 2018).”
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“Feng, Ramo, Chan, and Bourgeois (2017) pointed out that research studies on Internet addiction outnumbered research studies on video game addiction.”
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“7%2 in the general population (5); a pooled 4.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Feng, W., Ramo, D. E., Chan, S. R., & Bourgeois, J. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Feng, Wendy
- Venue
- Addictive Behaviors
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-12
- Volume
- 75
- Pages
- 17-24
- ISSN
- 0306-4603 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC5582011
- OpenAlex
- W2624846438
- Cited by
- 256
- References
- 80
- Citations by year
- 2026: 20 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 50 · 2020: 40 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 5.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Addictive Behaviors (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (K23DA032578)
- 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 › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Keywords
- internet gaming disorder, prevalence trends, online games, internet addiction
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Prevalence, Behavior, Addictive, Video Games, Internet, Internationality
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