TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial: Cognitive and Personality Variables in the Development of Behavioral Addictions in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood
AU - Passanisi, Alessia
AU - Pace, Ugo
AU - Milani, Luca
AU - Schimmenti, Adriano
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - As part of the scientific debate on the nature of behavioral addictions, it has been shown the
tendency of researchers to elaborate, for the lack of theoretical and clinical conceptualizations,
evidence related to disorders by adapting the criteria for addictive disorders linked to substance
abuse, assuming that there is a sort of conceptual overlap or similarity. Indeed, some researchers
have observed that people characterized by behavioral addictions show symptoms related behaviors
similar to those of people with substance use disorders, such as compulsive behaviors, frequent
and obsessive thoughts about a particular activity, to the exclusion of other social interests’,
psychological distress when the activity is reduced, reduction in social, recreational, professional,
educational, and domestic activities.
AB - As part of the scientific debate on the nature of behavioral addictions, it has been shown the
tendency of researchers to elaborate, for the lack of theoretical and clinical conceptualizations,
evidence related to disorders by adapting the criteria for addictive disorders linked to substance
abuse, assuming that there is a sort of conceptual overlap or similarity. Indeed, some researchers
have observed that people characterized by behavioral addictions show symptoms related behaviors
similar to those of people with substance use disorders, such as compulsive behaviors, frequent
and obsessive thoughts about a particular activity, to the exclusion of other social interests’,
psychological distress when the activity is reduced, reduction in social, recreational, professional,
educational, and domestic activities.
KW - adolescence
KW - behavioral addiction
KW - cognitive variable
KW - emerging adult
KW - personality
KW - adolescence
KW - behavioral addiction
KW - cognitive variable
KW - emerging adult
KW - personality
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/204151
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.892669
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.892669
M3 - Article
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 2
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
ER -