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Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research
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Background: Behavioral addiction research has been particularly flourishing over the last two decades. However, recent publications have suggested that nearly all daily life activities might lead to a genuine addiction. Methods and aim: In this article, we discuss how the use of atheoretical and confirmatory research approaches may result in the identification of an unlimited list of “new” behavioral addictions. Results: Both methodological and theoretical shortcomings of these studies were discussed. Conclusions: We suggested that studies overpathologizing daily life activities are likely to prompt a dismissive appraisal of behavioral addiction research. Consequently, we proposed several roadmaps for future research in the field, centrally highlighting the need for longer tenable behavioral addiction research that shifts from a mere criteria-based approach toward an approach focusing on the psychological processes involved.
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“However, even when a university student rates this type of item high on a Likert scale, the answer does not necessarily have clinical relevance (Billieux, Schimmenti, Khazaal, Maurage, & Heeren, 2015; Kardefelt-Winther, 2015).”
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“Persons with CSBD present themselves clinically and socially with a perception of out-of-control sexual behavior, extreme guilt over sexual gratification, and distress related to the adverse consequences of repetitive sexual behavior and/or the lack of satisfaction from it.”
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“We agree that social media, as with use of many other new technologies, is overpathologized (Billieux et al., 2015).”
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“Whilst referring to an ‘addiction’ terminology in this paper, it needs to be noted that there is much controversy within the research field concerning both the possible overpathologising of everyday life [47,48] as well as the most appropriate term for the phenomenon.”
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“On the one hand, current behavioral addiction research tends to be correlational and confirmatory in nature and is often based on population studies rather than clinical samples in which psychological impairments are observed [47].”
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“According to Billieux et al. [3, 7], most existing studies on this topic were conducted without a defined theoretical framework, which might limit the possibility for a better understanding of PSU.”
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“It is worth noting, however, that the screening questionnaire used in the current study (PCPUQ) was developed by directly transposing substance abuse criteria to the diagnosis of PSU, an approach that has been criticized and is susceptible to artificially inflated prevalence rates [7].”
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“However, this has led to debates about everyday behaviors being over-pathologized (Billieux, Schimmenti, Khazaal, Maurage, & Heeren, 2015).”
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“However, despite the existence of problematic use, it seems that the term ‘addiction’ is an inadequate construct when used as simply “Internet addiction”, because: (i) the problematic use does not depend on the mobile phone or the Internet itself, but on the activities accessed on them; (ii) the problematic use can be the symptom of other disorders, not a primary disorder in itself [10,17]; (iii)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Billieux, J., Schimmenti, A., Khazaal, Y., Maurage, P., & Heeren, A.
- Affiliations
- Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc (BE)
- Università degli Studi di Enna Kore (IT)
- University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
- UCLouvain (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Billieux, Joël
- Venue
- Journal of Behavioral Addictions
- Publisher
- Akademiai Kiado Zrt.
- Published
- 2015-09
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 119-123
- ISSN
- 2062-5871 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4627665
- OpenAlex
- W2154480079
- Cited by
- 920
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 96 · 2025: 69 · 2024: 60 · 2023: 90 · 2022: 96 · 2021: 101 · 2020: 138 · 2019: 81 · 2018: 72 · 2017: 51 · 2016: 42 · 2015: 23
- FWCI
- 78.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Behavioral Addictions (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion)
- Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) (acceptedVersion)
- Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- European Commission (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, FP7-PEOPLE-2013, 627999)
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- FP7 People: Marie-Curie Actions (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF, FP7-PEOPLE-2013)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Keywords
- behavioral addiction, activities of daily living, confirmatory research, diagnostic criteria, cognitive processes, research methodology critique
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Models, Theoretical, Behavior, Addictive, Behavioral Research
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