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Mark D. Griffiths
Researcher at Nottingham Trent University
Publications - 1485
Citations - 81998
Mark D. Griffiths is an academic researcher from Nottingham Trent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Addiction & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 124, co-authored 1238 publications receiving 61335 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark D. Griffiths include University of Bradford & Arizona State University.
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The Fear of COVID-19 Scale: Development and Initial Validation
Daniel Kwasi Ahorsu,Chung Ying Lin,Vida Imani,Mohsen Saffari,Mark D. Griffiths,Amir H. Pakpour,Amir H. Pakpour +6 more
TL;DR: The FCV-19S, a seven-item scale, has robust psychometric properties and is reliable and valid in assessing fear of COVID-19 among the general population and will also be useful in allaying CO VID-19 fears among individuals.
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A ‘components’ model of addiction within a biopsychosocial framework
TL;DR: The authors argue that addictions are a part of a biopsychosocial process and evidence is growing that excessive behaviours of all types do seem to have many commonalities, such as saliency, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, conflict and relapse.
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Online Social Networking and Addiction—A Review of the Psychological Literature
Daria J. Kuss,Mark D. Griffiths +1 more
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.
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Internet addiction: a systematic review of epidemiological research for the last decade.
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.
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The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: a large-scale cross-sectional study
Cecilie Schou Andreassen,Joël Billieux,Mark D. Griffiths,Daria J. Kuss,Zsolt Demetrovics,Elvis Mazzoni,Ståle Pallesen +6 more
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.