Investigating the differential effects of social networking site addiction and Internet gaming disorder on psychological health

Pontes, HM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8020-7623, 2017. Investigating the differential effects of social networking site addiction and Internet gaming disorder on psychological health. Journal of Behavioral Addictions. ISSN 2062-5871

Preview

Text 9501_Pontes.pdf - Published version Download (245kB) | Preview

Abstract

Background and aims: Previous studies focused on examining the interrelationships between social networking site (SNS) addiction and Internet gaming disorder (IGD) in isolation. Moreover, little is known about the potential simultaneous differential effects of SNS addiction and IGD on psychological health. This study investigated the interplay between these two technological addictions and ascertained how they can uniquely and distinctively contribute to increasing psychiatric distress when accounting for potential effects stemming from sociodemographic and technology-related variables.
Methods: A sample of 509 adolescents (53.5% males) aged 10–18 years (mean = 13.02, SD = 1.64) were recruited.
Results: It was found that key demographic variables can play a distinct role in explaining SNS addiction and IGD. Furthermore, it was found that SNS addiction and IGD can augment the symptoms of each other, and simultaneously contribute to deterioration of overall psychological health in a similar fashion, further highlighting potentially common etiological and clinical course between these two phenomena. Finally, the detrimental effects of IGD on psychological health were found to be slightly more pronounced than those produced by SNS addiction, a finding that warrants additional scientific scrutiny.
Discussion and conclusion: The implications of these results are further discussed in light of the existing evidence and debates regarding the status of technological addictions as primary and secondary disorders.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Behavioral Addictions
Creators:	Pontes, H.M.
Publisher:	Akadémiai Kiadó
Date:	13 November 2017
ISSN:	2062-5871
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1556/2006.6.2017.075 DOI
Rights:	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	16 Nov 2017 09:42
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2017 09:42
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/32035

Actions (login required)

Edit View

Statistics

Views

Downloads