The Journal of Gambling Issues Encompasses Video Gaming Papers

Issues for DSM-5: video-gaming disorder?

Psychometric Properties of the Persian Translation of Video Gaming Addiction Test

Introduction: The current study aims to measure the validity, reliability, and psychometric properties of the Persian translation of the Video Gaming Addiction Test (VAT). Materials and Methods: A total of 280 young men (14-20 years old) (mean ± SD age: 17.22 ± 1.8 years), including excessive gamers and normal subjects, entered the study. They answered VAT, Visual Analog Scale (VAS), and Conne...

Sex Differences in Gaming Machine Gambling 1 Running head: SEX DIFFERENCES IN GAMING MACHINE GAMBLING Sex differences in pathological gambling using gaming machines1

With recent introduction of poker machines in Australia, there have been claims of increases in the number of women with gambling-related problems. Research in the United States indicates however, that men have a higher incidence of pathological gambling. The aims of this study were to ascertain among game machine users in a major city in Australia whether (a) more women than men exhibited symp...

Problematic Gaming and Gambling among Adolescents

Vadlin, S. 2016. Problematic Gaming and Gambling among Adolescents. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1268. 91 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9730-9. The overall aims of this thesis were to develop and evaluate a screening instrument designed to detect gaming addiction symptoms in adolescents, to study association...

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