Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Behavioral Addictions is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet use disorders and what to do with “smartphone addiction”?199
Depression and anxiety symptoms associated with internet gaming disorder before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study169
Problematic internet-related behaviors mediate the associations between levels of internet engagement and distress among schoolchildren during COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal structural equation mod105
Internet addiction and psychological distress among Chinese schoolchildren before and during the COVID-19 outbreak: A latent class analysis77
The psychology of cryptocurrency trading: Risk and protective factors72
Determination the cut-off point for the Bergen social media addiction (BSMAS): Diagnostic contribution of the six criteria of the components model of addiction for social media disorder63
What should be included in the criteria for compulsive sexual behavior disorder?54
Physical activity influences the mobile phone addiction among Chinese undergraduates: The moderating effect of exercise type48
Proposed diagnostic criteria for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study44
Fear of missing out (FoMO) and internet use: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis43
A network analysis of problematic smartphone use symptoms in a student sample41
How COVID-19 stress related to schooling and online learning affects adolescent depression and Internet gaming disorder: Testing Conservation of Resources theory with sex difference37
Work addiction and personality: A meta-analytic study37
Internet gaming as a coping method among schizophrenic patients facing psychological distress32
The neural correlates of delay discounting in obesity and binge eating disorder31
Mediating effects of rumination and bedtime procrastination on the relationship between Internet addiction and poor sleep quality31
A test of the pathway model of problematic smartphone use30
Gaming motivations and gaming disorder symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis30
The role of inhibitory control and decision-making in the course of Internet gaming disorder30
Treatment outcomes of a CBT-based group intervention for adolescents with Internet use disorders30
Problematic online gambling among adolescents: A systematic review about prevalence and related measurement issues28
Understanding juveniles’ problematic smartphone use and related influencing factors: A network perspective27
Treatments and interventions for compulsive sexual behavior disorder with a focus on problematic pornography use: A preregistered systematic review27
Who feels affected by “out of control” sexual behavior? Prevalence and correlates of indicators for ICD-11 Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder in the German Health and Sexuality Survey (GeSiD)26
Young people who purchase loot boxes are more likely to have gambling problems: An online survey of adolescents and young adults living in NSW Australia25
Applying fairness in labeling various types of internet use disorders. •25
Internet addiction in Gulf countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis24
International Sex Survey: Study protocol of a large, cross-cultural collaborative study in 45 countries24
Associations between gaming disorder, parent-child relationship, parental supervision, and discipline styles: Findings from a school-based survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam24
Obsessive healthy eating and orthorexic eating tendencies in sport and exercise contexts: A systematic review and meta-analysis24
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on gambling habit: A cross-sectional study from Italy24
Gender-related differences in frontal-parietal modular segregation and altered effective connectivity in internet gaming disorder23
Internet-based treatment of gambling problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials23
Contradicting classification, nomenclature, and diagnostic criteria of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD) and future directions •23
Assessing ICD-11 gaming disorder in adolescent gamers by parental ratings: Development and validation of the Gaming Disorder Scale for Parents (GADIS-P)23
Withdrawal and tolerance as related to compulsive sexual behavior disorder and problematic pornography use – Preregistered study based on a nationally representative sample in Poland23
Temporal associations between physical activity and three types of problematic use of the internet: A six-month longitudinal study22
Structural characteristics of fixed-odds sports betting products22
Application of the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases gaming disorder criteria to treatment-seeking patients: Comparison with the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Sta22
Enhanced neural responses in specific phases of reward processing in individuals with Internet gaming disorder22
Sports betting around the world: A systematic review21
The Big Five personality traits and online gaming: A systematic review and meta-analysis21
Compulsive sexual behavior, religiosity, and spirituality: A systematic review20
Assessment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer clients •20
Hands-off: Feasibility and preliminary results of a two-armed randomized controlled trial of a web-based self-help tool to reduce problematic pornography use20
Development and validation of a nine-item short screening test for ICD-11 gaming disorder (GAMES test) and estimation of the prevalence in the general young population20
Social comparisons: A potential mechanism linking problematic social media use with depression20
Emotional regulation in eating disorders and gambling disorder: A transdiagnostic approach19
Substitute addictions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic19
A longitudinal study of the effects of problematic smartphone use on social functioning among people with schizophrenia: Mediating roles for sleep quality and self-stigma19
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 42 countries: Insights from the International Sex Survey and introduction of standardized assessment tools19
Social media ‘addiction’: The absence of an attentional bias to social media stimuli19
Problematic Internet use among residential college students during the COVID-19 lockdown: A social network analysis approach19
“Diagnostic inflation” will not resolve taxonomical problems in the study of addictive online behaviours. •19
The stock market as a casino: Associations between stock market trading frequency and problem gambling19
Impaired disengagement of attention from computer-related stimuli in Internet Gaming Disorder: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence18
Prevalence of gaming disorder in East Asia: A comprehensive meta-analysis18
A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder18
Identifying the central symptoms of problematic social networking sites use through network analysis18
Problematic Internet Use in early adolescence: The role of attachment and negative beliefs about worry18
Multidimensional family therapy reduces problematic gaming in adolescents: A randomised controlled trial18
The expanded interactional model of exercise addiction18
Understanding the mechanics and consumer risks associated with play-to-earn (P2E) gaming18
Gaming disorder and the COVID-19 pandemic: Treatment demand and service delivery challenges17
Getting “clean” from nonsuicidal self-injury: Experiences of addiction on the subreddit r/selfharm17
A comprehensive model to understand and assess the motivational background of video game use: The Gaming Motivation Inventory (GMI)17
Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic factor in eating disorders and gambling disorder: Treatment outcome implications17
Internet use disorders: What's new and what's not?. •17
Modelling the contribution of metacognitions and expectancies to problematic smartphone use16
Is the I-PACE (Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution) model valid in South Korea? The effects of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on internet gaming disorder and the mediating effect of16
Internet-based interventions for behavioral addictions: A systematic review16
Between two worlds: Exploring esports betting in relation to problem gambling, gaming, and mental health problems16
Sexual incentive delay in the scanner: Sexual cue and reward processing, and links to problematic porn consumption and sexual motivation16
Are esports bettors a new generation of harmed gamblers? A comparison with sports bettors on gambling involvement, problems, and harm16
Disorders due to addictive behaviors: Further issues, debates, and controversies •15
Different cultures, similar daydream addiction? An examination of the cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale15
Awareness drives changes in reward value which predict eating behavior change: Probing reinforcement learning using experience sampling from mobile mindfulness training for maladaptive eating14
Functional connectivity between the parahippocampal gyrus and the middle temporal gyrus moderates the relationship between problematic mobile phone use and depressive symptoms: Evidence from a longitu14
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and gaming disorder: Frequency and associated factors in a clinical sample of patients with Gaming Disorder14
The role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the treatment of behavioral addictions: Two case reports and review of the literature14
The potential addictive mechanism involved in repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury: The roles of emotion dysregulation and impulsivity in adolescents14
Theoretical conceptualisations of problematic exercise in psychometric assessment instruments: A systematic review14
Comparison of frontostriatal circuits in adolescent nicotine addiction and internet gaming disorder14
Unambiguous evidence that over half of gambling problems in Australia are caused by electronic gambling machines: Results from a large-scale composite population study13
Joint effects of children’s emotional problems and parental depressive symptoms on the occurrence of internet gaming disorder among children and adolescents: A longitudinal study13
Distress-driven impulsivity interacts with cognitive inflexibility to determine addiction-like eating13
Assessment of Criteria for Specific Internet-use Disorders (ACSID-11): Introduction of a new screening instrument capturing ICD-11 criteria for gaming disorder and other potential Internet-use disorde13
The identification of Australian low-risk gambling limits: A comparison of gambling-related harm measures13
Aberrant orbitofrontal cortex reactivity to erotic cues in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder13
Two-dimensional taxonomy of internet addiction and assessment of smartphone addiction with diagnostic criteria and mobile apps13
Sex differences in neural substrates of risk taking: Implications for sex-specific vulnerabilities to internet gaming disorder12
Craving in gambling disorder: A systematic review12
Imbalanced sensitivities to primary and secondary rewards in internet gaming disorder12
Longitudinal modifiable risk and protective factors of internet gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Prevalence of internet addiction in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis12
Mental and sexual health perspectives of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder •11
Altered connectivity in the right inferior frontal gyrus associated with self-control in adolescents exhibiting problematic smartphone use: A fMRI study11
Symptoms of problematic pornography use among help-seeking male adolescents: Latent profile and network analysis11
Skin gambling predicts problematic gambling amongst adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling11
How gambling motives are associated with socio-demographics and gambling behavior - A Finnish population study11
Potentially addictive behaviours increase during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic11
Assessing compulsive sexual behavior disorder: The development and international validation of the compulsive sexual behavior disorder-diagnostic inventory (CSBD-DI)11
Examining the reliability of the scores of self-report instruments assessing problematic exercise: A systematic review and meta-analysis11
Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder should not be classified by solely relying on component/symptomatic features •11
Social-networks-related stimuli interferes decision making under ambiguity: Interactions with cue-induced craving and problematic social-networks use11
Request-a-bet sports betting products indicate patterns of bettor preference and bookmaker profits11
Compulsive buying gradually increased during the first six months of the Covid-19 outbreak11
Problematic use of digital media in children and adolescents with a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder compared to controls. A meta-analysis11
Problematic risk-taking involving emerging technologies: A stakeholder framework to minimize harms10
Caudate nucleus volume mediates the link between glutamatergic neurotransmission and problematic smartphone use in youth10
Gambling disorder is associated with reduced sensitivity to expected value during risky choice10
Relationship between adverse childhood experiences and problematic internet use among young adults: The role of the feeling of loneliness trajectory10
Bridging the links between Big Five personality traits and problematic smartphone use: A network analysis10
Where to put Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD)? Phenomenology matters •10
Food addiction and lifetime alcohol and illicit drugs use in specific eating disorders10
Differences in problem and pathological gambling: A narrative review considering sex and gender10
Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced early attentional bias toward sexual images in individuals with tendencies toward cybersex addiction9
Impulsivity in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder and Pedophilic Disorder9
Perfectionism predicts disordered eating and gambling via focused self-concept among those high in erroneous beliefs about their disordered behavior9
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on addictive behavior and brain glucose metabolism in problematic online gamers9
Motivated attention to stimuli related to social networking sites: A cue-reactivity study9
Changes to the playing field: A contemporary study of actual European online sports betting9
Draconian policy measures are unlikely to prevent disordered gaming9
What does “Sexual” mean in compulsive sexual behavior disorder? •9
Efficacy of short-term telemedicine motivation-based intervention for individuals with Internet Use Disorder – A pilot-study9
The relationship between adolescent emotion dysregulation and problematic technology use: Systematic review of the empirical literature9
Altered functional network activities for behavioral adjustments and Bayesian learning in young men with Internet gaming disorder9
Development and validation of a prediction model for online gambling problems based on players' account data9
Another failure of the latent disease model? The case of compulsive sexual behavior disorder •8
Problematic shopping and self-injurious behaviors in adolescents8
A daily diary investigation on the job-related affective experiences fueled by work addiction8
Sugar Habit Hacker: Initial evidence that a planning intervention reduces sugar intake8
Heart rate variability and interoceptive accuracy predict impaired decision-making in Gambling Disorder8
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of treatment interventions for Internet use disorders: Critical analysis of the methodical quality according to the PRISMA guidelines8
Loot box purchasing is linked to problem gambling in adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling participation8
Functional impairment, insight, and comparison between criteria for gaming disorder in the International Classification of Diseases, 11 Edition and internet gaming disorder in Diagnostic and Statistic8
Psychopathogical status and personality correlates of problem gambling severity in sports bettors undergoing treatment for gambling disorder8
Ultra-processed food intake and eating disorders: Cross-sectional associations among French adults8
Who makes in-play bets? Investigating the demographics, psychological characteristics, and gambling-related harms of in-play sports bettors8
The impact of long-term online learning on social anxiety and problematic smartphone use symptoms among secondary school students with different levels of fear of missing out: Evidence from a symptom 8
Mobile and non-mobile Internet Use Disorder: Specific risks and possible shared Pavlovian conditioning processes. •8
Safer esports for players, spectators, and bettors: Issues, challenges, and policy recommendations7
Comment on: Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic – The role of exergames7
The relationship between parenting styles and adolescent problematic Internet use: A three-level meta-analysis7
Opposing associations of Internet Use Disorder symptom domains with structural and functional organization of the striatum: A dimensional neuroimaging approach7
Affective impulsivity moderates the relationship between disordered gambling severity and attentional bias in electronic gaming machine (EGM) players7
Differences in resting-state functional connectivity according to the level of impulsiveness in patients with internet gaming disorder7
Brain structural co-development is associated with internalizing symptoms two years later in the ABCD cohort7
Dispositional and online-specific Fear of Missing Out are associated with the development of IUD symptoms in different internet applications7
Involvement in Sexaholics Anonymous and life satisfaction: The mediating role of meaning in life and hope7
Risk factors and outcomes of internet gaming disorder identified in Korean prospective adolescent cohort study7
Treatment for the concerned significant others of gamblers: A systematic review6
Update on treatment studies for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A systematic review6
Player-avatar interactions in habitual and problematic gaming: A qualitative investigation6
Addressing taxonomic challenges for Internet Use Disorders in light of changing technologies and diagnostic classifications. •6
Trajectory of problematic smartphone use among adolescents aged 10–18 years: The roles of childhood family environment and concurrent parent–child relationships6
The modulation of acute stress on model-free and model-based reinforcement learning in gambling disorder6
Cardiovascular response to physical exercise and the risk of Internet addiction in 15–16-year-old adolescents6
Personal choice is a nuanced concept – Lessons learned from the gambling field. •6
On the pitfalls of conceptualizing excessive physical exercise as an addictive disorder: Commentary on Dinardi et al. (2021)6
Prefrontal cortical activation in Internet Gaming Disorder Scale high scorers during actual real-time internet gaming: A preliminary study using fNIRS6
An empirical study of affective and cognitive functions in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder6
Reduced loss aversion in value-based decision-making and edge-centric functional connectivity in patients with internet gaming disorder6
Longitudinal association between parental involvement and internet gaming disorder among Chinese adolescents: Consideration of future consequences as a mediator and peer victimization as a moderator6
Ten years of research on the treatments of internet gaming disorder: A scoping review and directions for future research5
Eating disorder characteristics among Hungarian medical students: Changes between 1989 and 20115
Nosology of behavioral addictions: Intersections with philosophy of psychiatry •5
Prosocialness in young males with substance and behavioral addictions5
Reserve your judgment on “Draconian” Chinese video gaming restrictions on children •5
The withdrawal-related affective, gaming urge, and anhedonia symptoms of internet gaming disorder during abstinence5
Treatment effects and adherence of sexually compulsive men in a randomized controlled trial of psychotherapy and medication5
Five-year follow-up on a sample of gamblers: predictive factors of relapse5
Ranking of addiction journals in eight widely used impact metrics5
Risk reduction and harm prevention in technology use. •5
Alterations in oxytocin and vasopressin in men with problematic pornography use: The role of empathy5
Gambling advertising on Twitter before, during and after the initial Australian COVID-19 lockdown5
Eating disorder in gambling disorder: A group with increased psychopathology5
Deep learning(s) in gaming disorder through the user-avatar bond: A longitudinal study using machine learning5
The role of executive function deficits, delay aversion and emotion dysregulation in internet gaming disorder and social media disorder: Links to psychosocial outcomes5
Mindfulness buffers the influence of stress on cue-induced craving for Internet among Chinese colleges with problematic Internet use5
The effect of gambling problems on the subjective wellbeing of gamblers’ family and friends: Evidence from large-scale population research in Australia and Canada5
Applying ICD-11 criteria of Gaming Disorder to identify problematic video streaming in adolescents: Conceptualization of a new clinical phenomenon4
Gambling, cryptocurrency, and financial trading app marketing in English Premier League football: A frequency analysis of in-game logos4
Linking temporal-parietal junction to internet addiction tendency: Moderating effect of critical thinking4
On the current psychotherapeutic situation for persons with pornography use disorder in Germany4
Heterogeneity of gaming disorder: A clinically-based typology for developing personalized interventions4
An empirical investigation of the Pathways Model of problem gambling through the conjoint use of self-reports and behavioural tasks4
Problem gaming-related harm experienced by partners and parents of individuals with gaming problems and their help-seeking experiences4
Treating internet use disorders via the internet? Results of a two-armed randomized controlled trial4
Neural and behavioral correlates of sexual stimuli anticipation point to addiction-like mechanisms in compulsive sexual behavior disorder4
Behavioral addictions in the ICD-11: An important debate that is anticipated to continue for some time4
Personality dimensions of compulsive sexual behavior in the Sex@Brain study4
Longitudinal associations between maladaptive daydreaming and psychological distress during the COVID-19 health crisis4
Money used in gaming is associated with problem gambling: Results of the ESPAD 2019 Finland4
The prevalence of loyalty program use and its association with higher risk gambling in Australia4
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