Daria J. Kuss

TL;DR: The findings indicate that SNSs are predominantly used for social purposes, mostly related to the maintenance of established offline networks, and extraverts appear to use social networking sites for social enhancement, whereas introverts use it for social compensation.

TL;DR: The results indicate that a number of core symptoms of Internet addiction appear relevant for diagnosis, which assimilates Internet addiction and other addictive disorders and also differentiates them, implying a conceptualisation as syndrome with similar etiology and components, but different expressions of addictions.

TL;DR: The study significantly adds to the understanding of mental health symptoms and their role in addictive use of modern technology, and suggests that the concept of Internet use disorder (i.e., "Internet addiction") as a unified construct is not warranted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a literature review of Internet gaming addiction, focusing on symptoms traditionally associated with substance-related addictions, including mood modification, tolerance and salience.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrative pathway model is proposed that aims to provide a theoretical framework to guide future research in the field of PMPU, highlighting that PMPU is a heterogeneous and multi-faceted condition.