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Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux
Laboratory for Experimental Psychopathology, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Internet and Gambling Disorders Clinic, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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Internet and Gambling Disorders Clinic, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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Adriano Schimmenti
Adriano Schimmenti
Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, UKE – Kore University of Enna, Italy
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Yasser Khazaal
Yasser Khazaal
Addictology Division, Mental Health and Psychiatry Department, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
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Pierre Maurage
Pierre Maurage
Laboratory for Experimental Psychopathology, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Internet and Gambling Disorders Clinic, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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Internet and Gambling Disorders Clinic, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
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Alexandre Heeren
Alexandre Heeren
Laboratory for Experimental Psychopathology, Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Background
Behavioral addiction research has been particularly flourishing over the last two decades. However, recent publications have suggested that nearly all daily life activities might lead to a genuine addiction.
Methods and aim
In this article, we discuss how the use of atheoretical and confirmatory research approaches may result in the identification of an unlimited list of “new” behavioral addictions.
Results
Both methodological and theoretical shortcomings of these studies were discussed.
Conclusions
We suggested that studies overpathologizing daily life activities are likely to prompt a dismissive appraisal of behavioral addiction research. Consequently, we proposed several roadmaps for future research in the field, centrally highlighting the need for longer tenable behavioral addiction research that shifts from a mere criteria-based approach toward an approach focusing on the psychological processes involved.
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- Joel BILLIEUX (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Beáta BŐTHE (University of Montreal, Canada)
- Matthias BRAND (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
- Daniel KING (Flinders University, Australia)
- Gyöngyi KÖKÖNYEI (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
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- Daniel Thor OLASON (University of Iceland, Iceland)
- Ståle PALLESEN (University of Bergen, Norway)
- Afarin RAHIMI-MOVAGHAR (Teheran University of Medical Sciences, Iran)
- József RÁCZ (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
- Michael SCHAUB (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Marcantanio M. SPADA (London South Bank University, United Kingdom)
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- Alexander E. VOISKOUNSKY (Moscow State University, Russia)
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