Development of Internet Addiction Scale Based on DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria: An Evaluation in Terms of Internet Gaming Disorder | Zendy

Sezin Andiç | Zendy; Ayşegül Durak Batıgün | Zendy

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Development of Internet Addiction Scale Based on DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria: An Evaluation in Terms of Internet Gaming Disorder

Author(s) -

Sezin Andiç,

Ayşegül Durak Batıgün

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

turkish journal of psychiatry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.218

H-Index - 28

ISSN - 1300-2163

DOI - 10.5080/u23194

Subject(s) - loneliness , psychology , addiction , clinical psychology , ucla loneliness scale , scale (ratio) , impulsivity , the internet , behavioral addiction , psychiatry , dsm 5 , turkish , cronbach's alpha , exploratory factor analysis , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , craving , psychometrics , personality , social psychology , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , physics

Internet addiction (IA) turn out to be a serious health problem in our country as in the whole world, especially for young adults. To our knowledge, there are very few studies investigating IA and associated psychological variables in a Turkish sample. The purpose of this study is to develop the internet addiction scale (IAS) on the basis of the diagnostic criteria for internet gaming disorder, in the third section of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).

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