Internet Gaming Disorder in the DSM-5: Personality and Individual Differences

Issues for DSM-5: video-gaming disorder?

Narcissistic personality disorder in DSM-5 Section II and Section III: The study of alternative model

Abstract Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy that people because of belief to being special and unique, interpersonal problems and empathy are faced. The present paper is studying the conceptualization and diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder in DSM-5 main Section (Section II) and Alternative model (S...

Narcissistic personality disorder in DSM-5.

The criteria for personality disorders in Section II of DSM-5 have not changed from those in DSM-IV. Therefore, the diagnosis of Section II narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) will perpetuate all of the well-enumerated shortcomings associated with the diagnosis since DSM-III. In this article, we will briefly review problems associated with Section II NPD and then discuss the evolution of a ...

DSM-5 diagnosis of Internet Gaming Disorder: Some ways forward in overcoming issues and concerns in the gaming studies field

Background and aims The current DSM-5 diagnosis of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013) has led to a number of issues and concerns that we highlighted in our recent paper (Kuss, Griffiths, & Pontes, 2017). Experts in the field responded to our evaluation of these issues resulting in six commentaries. Methods In this paper, we offer responses to the six co...

Validation of the Ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10) and evaluation of the nine DSM-5 Internet Gaming Disorder criteria.

INTRODUCTION The inclusion of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in the DSM-5 (Section 3) has given rise to much scholarly debate regarding the proposed criteria and their operationalization. The present study's aim was threefold: to (i) develop and validate a brief psychometric instrument (Ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test; IGDT-10) to assess IGD using definitions suggested in DSM-5, (ii) con...