Gaming disorder among children and adolescents

Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, Stavropoulos, V, Pontes, HM, Carbonell, X, King, DL, Lin, C-Y, Demetrovics, Z and Király, O, 2024. Gaming disorder among children and adolescents. In: Christakis, DA and Hale, L, eds., Handbook of children and screens: digital media, development, and well-being from birth through adolescence. Cham: Springer, pp. 187-194. ISBN 9783031693618

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Abstract

Research interest in problematic gaming has increased considerably in the past decade leading the World Health Organization to classify ‘gaming disorder’ (GD) as a formal diagnosis in 2019. This chapter describes the current state of knowledge in relation to minors, as well as future research on GD along with recommendations for important stakeholders such as researchers, the gaming industry, and policymakers. Meta-analyses on the prevalence of GD range from 3.05% to 4.6%, with males, children, and adolescents, being the most affected. There are three overarching interacting factors that are involved in the acquisition, development, and maintenance of GD, namely the individual factors, gaming-related factors, and environmental factors. Future research on GD requires more studies with clinical samples, large-scale representative samples using longitudinal designs, more cross-cultural comparisons, as well as more studies from a neurobiological perspective. The topic of esports and the ever-changing structural characteristics of video games also require further research. The chapter concludes with several recommendations such as developing specific screening instruments for child and adolescent populations and the need for independent regulators in each country that oversee the video game industry to ensure social responsibility initiatives for player protection and harm minimization.

Item Type:	Chapter in book
Creators:	Griffiths, M.D., Stavropoulos, V., Pontes, H.M., Carbonell, X., King, D.L., Lin, C.-Y., Demetrovics, Z. and Király, O.
Publisher:	Springer
Place of Publication:	Cham
Date:	2024
ISBN:	9783031693618
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1007/978-3-031-69362-5_26 DOI 2328571 Other
Rights:	© the author(s) 2025. This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), 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 license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the chapter's Creative Commons license 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.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	18 Dec 2024 16:20
Last Modified:	18 Dec 2024 16:20
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52740

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