Commentary on: Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research
Author(s) -
Anikó Maráz,
Orsolya Király,
Zsolt Demetrovics
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of behavioral addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.265
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 2063-5303
pISSN - 2062-5871
DOI - 10.1556/2006.4.2015.026
Subject(s) - psychology , gambling disorder , behavioral addiction , predictive value , addiction , test (biology) , impulse control disorder , value (mathematics) , clinical psychology , blueprint , psychiatry , everyday life , pathological , medicine , statistics , paleontology , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pathology , political science , law , engineering , biology
Survey-based studies often fail to take into account the predictive value of a test, in other words, the probability of a person having (or not having) the disease when scoring positive (or negative) on the given screening test.
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