Assessing Addiction: Concepts and Instruments

Response: Assessing the Instruments

Diagnostic instruments for behavioural addiction: an overview

In non-substance-related addiction, the so-called behavioural addiction, no external psychotropic substances are consumed. The psychotropic effect consists of the body's own biochemical processes induced only by excessive activities. Until recently, knowledge was limited with respect to clinically relevant excessive reward-seeking behaviour, such as pathological gambling, excessive shopping and...

Food addiction-diagnosis and treatment.

In this article we summarized the recent research of the food addiction, diagnosis, treatment and prevention, which is carried out in this area. The concept of food addiction is new and complex, but proven to be very important for understanding and solving the problem of obesity. First part of this paper emphasizes the neurological studies, whose results indicate the similarity of brain process...

Deutsche Übersetzung und Validierung der Yale Food Addiction Scale

Excessive food consumption is often described as an addictive behavior. Nevertheless, to date in the German literature, there is a lack of instruments specifically assessing the construct of food addiction. For this reason, we translated and validated the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS, Gearhardt, Corbin, & Brownell, 2009). This scale identifies people with distinctive symptoms indicative of a...

Measuring sexual addiction and compulsivity: a critical review of instruments.

Research has proliferated on sexual addiction in recent years, and this has led to an increase in the instruments created to measure this construct. The authors review 17 instruments that have been created to assess sexual addiction, including self-report rating scales, self-report checklists, and clinician rating scales measuring symptoms of sexual addiction, as well as self-report rating scal...