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Internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks

The internet age bears new challenges that include health risks. It is agreed that excessive internet use may reach pathological levels. However, the concept of internet addiction lacks specificity and, therefore, warrants studies on its diagnostic and etiologic classification. This study was conduc...

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Autores principales: Bouna-Pyrrou, Polyxeni, Mühle, Christiane, Kornhuber, Johannes, Lenz, Bernd
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25576300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00702-014-1361-5
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author Bouna-Pyrrou, Polyxeni
Mühle, Christiane
Kornhuber, Johannes
Lenz, Bernd
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description The internet age bears new challenges that include health risks. It is agreed that excessive internet use may reach pathological levels. However, the concept of internet addiction lacks specificity and, therefore, warrants studies on its diagnostic and etiologic classification. This study was conducted to characterize the novel DSM-5 criteria for internet gaming disorder and the adapted criteria for the “social network disorder”. Based on the established association of handedness and substance use disorders, we also explored whether internet use related to laterality. For this study, 3,287 volunteers participated in the online survey and gave particulars concerning their internet use in general, internet gaming and use of social networks, laterality markers (hand, foot, eye, ear, rotational preference in gymnastics, and head turning asymmetry) and health status. Of the participants, 1.1 % fulfilled the criteria for internet gaming disorder, and 1.8 % fulfilled the criteria for social network disorder. The applied criteria were highly correlated with the time spent on the respective internet activities (p < 4 × 10(−56)). The analyses of comorbidity and working hours support the thresholds of 5/9 criteria and ≥30 h/week spent on the internet for the classification as pathological (p < 5 × 10(−2)). Moreover, we found that left-handedness related to more affirmed criteria and longer times spent on social networks (p ≤ 4 × 10(−2)). The provided criteria proved to be user-friendly, comprehensible and well accepted. The results contribute to a better understanding of pathological internet gaming and social network use and provide evidence that biological markers of substance use disorders are involved in internet addiction. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00702-014-1361-5.
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spelling pubmed-45132282015-07-24 Internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks Bouna-Pyrrou, Polyxeni Mühle, Christiane Kornhuber, Johannes Lenz, Bernd J Neural Transm (Vienna) Psychiatry and Preclinical Psychiatric Studies - Original Article The internet age bears new challenges that include health risks. It is agreed that excessive internet use may reach pathological levels. However, the concept of internet addiction lacks specificity and, therefore, warrants studies on its diagnostic and etiologic classification. This study was conducted to characterize the novel DSM-5 criteria for internet gaming disorder and the adapted criteria for the “social network disorder”. Based on the established association of handedness and substance use disorders, we also explored whether internet use related to laterality. For this study, 3,287 volunteers participated in the online survey and gave particulars concerning their internet use in general, internet gaming and use of social networks, laterality markers (hand, foot, eye, ear, rotational preference in gymnastics, and head turning asymmetry) and health status. Of the participants, 1.1 % fulfilled the criteria for internet gaming disorder, and 1.8 % fulfilled the criteria for social network disorder. The applied criteria were highly correlated with the time spent on the respective internet activities (p < 4 × 10(−56)). The analyses of comorbidity and working hours support the thresholds of 5/9 criteria and ≥30 h/week spent on the internet for the classification as pathological (p < 5 × 10(−2)). Moreover, we found that left-handedness related to more affirmed criteria and longer times spent on social networks (p ≤ 4 × 10(−2)). The provided criteria proved to be user-friendly, comprehensible and well accepted. The results contribute to a better understanding of pathological internet gaming and social network use and provide evidence that biological markers of substance use disorders are involved in internet addiction. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00702-014-1361-5. Springer Basel 2015-01-10 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4513228/ /pubmed/25576300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00702-014-1361-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2015, corrected publication 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title Internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks
title_full Internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks
title_fullStr Internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks
title_full_unstemmed Internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks
title_short Internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks
title_sort internet gaming disorder, social network disorder and laterality: handedness relates to pathological use of social networks
topic Psychiatry and Preclinical Psychiatric Studies - Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25576300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00702-014-1361-5
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