Technology-mediated addictive behaviors constitute a spectrum of related yet distinct conditions: A network perspective

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors : Journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors
S BaggioJoël Billieux

Abstract

An important ongoing debate in the addiction field is whether certain technology-mediated behaviors constitute tenable and independent constructs. This study investigated whether problematic technology-mediated behaviors could be conceptualized as a spectrum of related, yet distinct disorders (spectrum hypothesis), using the network approach, which considers disorders as networks of symptoms. We used data from the Cohort Study on Substance Use and Risk Factors (C-SURF; Swiss National Science Foundation), with a representative sample of young Swiss men (subsample of participants engaged in technology-mediated behaviors, n = 3,404). Four technology-mediated addictive behaviors were investigated using symptoms derived from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) and the component model of addiction: Internet, smartphone, gaming, and cybersex. Network analyses included network estimation and visualization, community detection tests, and centrality indices. The network analysis identified four distinct clusters corresponding to each condition, but only Internet addiction had numerous relationships with the other behaviors. This finding, along with the finding that there were few relationships between the ...Continue Reading

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Dec 24, 2018·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Olatz Lopez-Fernandez
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Dec 9, 2020·Journal of Behavioral Addictions·Vladan StarcevicJoël Billieux
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