Video game addiction in emerging adulthood: Cross-sectional evidence of pathology in video game addicts as compared to matched healthy controls
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Background The Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (IGDS) is a widely used measure of video game addiction, a pathology affecting a small percentage of all people who play video games. Emerging adult males are significantly more likely to be video game addicts. Few researchers have examined how people who qualify as video game addicts based on the IGDS compared to matched controls based on age, gender, race, and marital status.Method The current study compared IGDS video game addicts to matched non-addicts in terms of their mental, physical, social-emotional health using self-report, survey methods.Results Addicts had poorer mental health and cognitive functioning including poorer impulse control and ADHD symptoms compared to controls. Additionally, addicts displayed increased emotional difficulties including increased depression and anxiety, felt more socially isolated, and were more likely to display internet pornography pathological use symptoms. Female video game addicts were at unique risk for negative outcomes.Limitations The sample for this study was undergraduate college students and self-report measures were used.Conclusions Participants who met the IGDS criteria for video game addiction displayed poorer emotional, physical, mental, and social health, adding to the growing evidence that video game addictions are a valid phenomenon.
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Studies that include the administration of diagnostic interview schedules to identify co-occurring conditions have reported that individuals diagnosed with gaming disorder experienced negative consequences in multiple life areas.
“Studies that include the administration of diagnostic interview schedules to identify co-occurring conditions have reported that individuals diagnosed with gaming disorder experienced negative consequences in multiple life areas 199,205-210 .”
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- Authors
- Stockdale, L., & Coyne, S. M.
- Affiliations
- Brigham Young University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stockdale, Laura
- Venue
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-01
- Volume
- 225
- Pages
- 265-272
- ISSN
- 0165-0327 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2748841200
- Cited by
- 214
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 40.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Affective Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Loyola University Office of the Provost
- 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
- gaming addiction, Internet Gaming Disorder Scale, emerging adulthood, mental health, depression, anxiety, social isolation, impulse control, ADHD symptoms, cognitive function, gender differences, university students
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anxiety, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Gambling, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Male, Reference Values, Students, Behavior, Addictive, Video Games, Internet, Young Adult, Self Report
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