Psychometric validation of the Turkish nine-item Internet Gaming Disorder Scale –Short Form (IGDS9-SF)

Over the last decade, many efforts have been made to conceptualize and assess pathological involvement with video games (Gentile et al., 2011; Pontes and Griffiths, 2014). Although the positive effects of healthy gaming have been widely demonstrated by previous research (Connolly et al., 2013), gaming can become pathological for some players when the activity becomes dysfunctional, harming an individual's social, occupational, family, school, and psychological functioning due emerging functional impairment caused by the activity (Gentile et al., 2011).

Source: Psychiatry Research - May 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cuneyt Evren, Ercan Dalbudak, Merve Topcu, Nilay Kutlu, Bilge Evren, Halley M. Pontes Source Type: research