Computer game misuse and addiction of adolescents in a clinically referred study sample.
Background Actually it remains unclear whether specific psychiatric disorders, especially emotional disorders and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), may be meaningful in the pathogenesis of computer game misuse. Objective In this clinical study with adolescent psychiatric patients we e...
| Publicado en: | Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 55; pp. 9 - 16 |
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