Relationship between anxiety, depression, sex, obesity, and internet addiction in Chinese adolescents: A short-term longitudinal study (2018)

Addict Behav. 2018 Dec 7;90:421-427. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.12.009. [Epub ahead of print] Li G1, Hou G1, Yang D1, Jian H2, Wang W3. Abstract Associations between anxiety, depression and adolescent Internet addiction have been well documented in the literature; however, few published studies have examined these relationships considering the developmental trajectory courses of adolescent Internet addiction as […]

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Social and Psychological Effects of the Internet Use (2018)

Acta Inform Med. 2016 Feb; 24(1): 66–68. Published online 2016 Feb 2. doi:  [10.5455/aim.2016.24.66-68] PMCID: PMC4789623 PMID: 27041814 Marianna Diomidous,1 Kostis Chardalias,1 Adrianna Magita,1 Panagiotis Koutonias,1 Paraskevi Panagiotopoulou,1 and John Mantas1 Abstract Background and Aims: Over the past two decades there was an upsurge of the use of Internet in human life. With this continuous […]

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Problematic internet use and its correlates among resident doctors of a tertiary care hospital of North India: A cross-sectional study (2018)

Asian J Psychiatr. 2018 Nov 26;39:42-47. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2018.11.018. Grover S1, Sahoo S2, Bhalla A3, Avasthi A2. Abstract BACKGROUND: Problematic Internet use/ Internet addiction (IA) has gained the attention of mental health professionals recently and studies have found that medical professionals are not immune to IA with prevalence rate ranging from 2.8 to 8%. Few studies […]

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“NZ Youth and Porn report reveals teens struggling to cut back” (NZ Herald)

A quarter of Kiwi teens have watched porn before the age of 12 – and most want restrictions on what can be accessed, a new report reveals. (Emphasis supplied.) Teenage pornography users are struggling with what could be considered “compulsive” viewing despite wanting to cut back. The great majority of teens, including half of all […]

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Relationship between quality of life in young adults and impulsivity/compulsivity (2019)

Psychiatry Research Volume 271, January 2019, Pages 253-258 Samuel R.Chamberlaina Jon E.Grantb https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.059 Highlights • This study examined measures associated with quality of life in young adults. • Impulse control disorders were strongly associated with lower quality of life. • Trait impulsiveness and cognition were also associated with worse quality of life. Abstract Impulsive and […]

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Analysis of “Data do not support sex as addictive” (Prause et al., 2017)

Introduction Nicole Prause touts yet another of her letters to the editor as “debunking” the existence of sex addiction and porn addiction (“Compulsive sexual behaviour disorder” in the upcoming ICD-11). Yet it does not. This 240-word opinion piece (Prause et al., 2017) cites zero studies to support its claims, providing only a single, easily refuted […]

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Lifestyle Interventions and Prevention of Suicide (2018)

Front Psychiatry. 2018 Nov 6;9:567. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00567. Berardelli I1, Corigliano V1, Hawkins M2, Comparelli A1, Erbuto D1, Pompili M1. Abstract Over the past years, there has been a growing interest in the association between lifestyle psychosocial interventions, severe mental illness, and suicide risk. Patients with severe mental disorders have higher mortality rates, poor health states, […]

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