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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Billieux, Joël
• Schimmenti, Adriano
• Khazaal, Yasser
• Maurage, Pierre
• Heeren, Alexandre

Titel

Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research

Ist Teil von

• Journal of behavioral addictions, 2015-09, Vol.4 (3), p.119-123

Ort / Verlag

Hungary: Akadémiai Kiadó

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.