Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Article	Citations
Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic	407
How to overcome taxonomical problems in the study of Internet use disorders and what to do with “smartphone addiction”?	178
Depression and anxiety symptoms associated with internet gaming disorder before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study	151
Which conditions should be considered as disorders in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) designation of “other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors”?	139
Pornography use in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic	126
COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and problematic eating behaviors in a student population	112
Comparing generalized and specific problematic smartphone/internet use: Longitudinal relationships between smartphone application-based addiction and social media addiction and psychological distress	107
Problematic internet-related behaviors mediate the associations between levels of internet engagement and distress among schoolchildren during COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal structural equation mod	93
Correlations between mobile phone addiction and anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and poor sleep quality among college students: A systematic review and meta-analysis	87
Impact of COVID-19 on gaming disorder: Monitoring and prevention	86
The development of the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Scale (CSBD-19): An ICD-11 based screening measure across three languages	72
Internet addiction and psychological distress among Chinese schoolchildren before and during the COVID-19 outbreak: A latent class analysis	63
Social anxiety and Internet gaming disorder: The role of motives and metacognitions	57
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 disorder	56
The psychology of cryptocurrency trading: Risk and protective factors	53
Co-occurrences of substance use and other potentially addictive behaviors: Epidemiological results from the Psychological and Genetic Factors of the Addictive Behaviors (PGA) Study	52
What should be included in the criteria for compulsive sexual behavior disorder?	47
Validation of a Brief Pornography Screen across multiple samples	46
The relationship between childhood trauma and Internet gaming disorder among college students: A structural equation model	45
The association between the Big Five personality traits and smartphone use disorder: A meta-analysis	42
Associations between symptoms of problematic smartphone, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram use: An item-level exploratory graph analysis perspective	41
Proposed diagnostic criteria for compulsive buying-shopping disorder: A Delphi expert consensus study	39
Face validity evaluation of screening tools for gaming disorder: Scope, language, and overpathologizing issues	36
Treatments for internet addiction, sex addiction and compulsive buying: A meta-analysis	35
Parent–adolescent attachment and peer attachment associated with Internet Gaming Disorder: A longitudinal study of first-year undergraduate students	35

Shared gray matter alterations in individuals with diverse behavioral addictions: A voxel-wise meta-analysis	33
Conduct problems and depressive symptoms in association with problem gambling and gaming: A systematic review	33
Physical activity influences the mobile phone addiction among Chinese undergraduates: The moderating effect of exercise type	32
The Conceptual Framework of Harmful Gambling: A revised framework for understanding gambling harm	30
How COVID-19 stress related to schooling and online learning affects adolescent depression and Internet gaming disorder: Testing Conservation of Resources theory with sex difference	30
Relationship between problematic Internet use and age at initial weekly Internet use	30
A network analysis of problematic smartphone use symptoms in a student sample	30
Should compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) be considered as a behavioral addiction? A debate paper presenting the opposing view	29
Smartphone use motivation and problematic smartphone use in a national representative sample of Chinese adolescents: The mediating roles of smartphone use time for various activities	28
Internet gaming as a coping method among schizophrenic patients facing psychological distress	28
Treatment outcomes of a CBT-based group intervention for adolescents with Internet use disorders	28
Inhibitory neuromodulation of the putamen to the prefrontal cortex in Internet gaming disorder: How addiction impairs executive control	27
A test of the pathway model of problematic smartphone use	26
Fear of missing out (FoMO) and internet use: A comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis	26
The neural correlates of delay discounting in obesity and binge eating disorder	26
Work addiction and personality: A meta-analytic study	25
Mediating effects of rumination and bedtime procrastination on the relationship between Internet addiction and poor sleep quality	24
Occurrence and clinical characteristics of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD): A cluster analysis in two independent community samples	24
The interplay of gaming disorder, gaming motivations, and the dark triad	24
Sexual addiction, compulsivity, and impulsivity among a predominantly female sample of adults who use the internet for sex	24
Understanding juveniles’ problematic smartphone use and related influencing factors: A network perspective	24
Young people who purchase loot boxes are more likely to have gambling problems: An online survey of adolescents and young adults living in NSW Australia	23
Problematic online gambling among adolescents: A systematic review about prevalence and related measurement issues	23
Assessing ICD-11 gaming disorder in adolescent gamers by parental ratings: Development and validation of the Gaming Disorder Scale for Parents (GADIS-P)	22
Morbid exercise behaviour and eating disorders: A meta-analysis	22
Obsessive healthy eating and orthorexic eating tendencies in sport and exercise contexts: A systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Applying fairness in labeling various types of internet use disorders. •	22
Altered core networks of brain connectivity and personality traits in internet gaming disorder	21
Associations between gaming disorder, parent-child relationship, parental supervision, and discipline styles: Findings from a school-based survey during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam	21
Higher levels of (Internet) Gaming Disorder symptoms according to the WHO and APA frameworks associate with lower striatal volume	20
International Sex Survey: Study protocol of a large, cross-cultural collaborative study in 45 countries	20
The effects of parental control and warmth on problematic internet use in adolescents: A prospective cohort study	20
The mediation role of work-life balance stress and chronic fatigue in the relationship between workaholism and depression among Chinese male workers in Hong Kong	20
Contradicting classification, nomenclature, and diagnostic criteria of Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD) and future directions •	20
Inhibitory control and problematic Internet-pornography use – The important balancing role of the insula	20
Gender-related differences in frontal-parietal modular segregation and altered effective connectivity in internet gaming disorder	20
Classification of probable online social networking addiction: A latent profile analysis from a large-scale survey among Chinese adolescents	20
Substitute addictions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	19
The role of inhibitory control and decision-making in the course of Internet gaming disorder	19
The 21-item Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Revised (BIS-R-21): An alternative three-factor model	19
Internet-based treatment of gambling problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	18
Aberrant posterior superior temporal sulcus functional connectivity and executive dysfunction in adolescents with internet gaming disorder	18
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 population	18
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 Sta	18
Assessment of compulsive sexual behavior disorder among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer clients •	18
“Diagnostic inflation” will not resolve taxonomical problems in the study of addictive online behaviours. •	18
Event-related potentials in a two-choice oddball task of impaired behavioral inhibitory control among males with tendencies towards cybersex addiction	18
Internet addiction in Gulf countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Relationship between Internet addiction, susceptible personality traits, and suicidal and self-harm ideation in Chinese adolescent students	17
The concept of buying-shopping disorder: Comparing latent classes with a diagnostic approach for in-store and online shopping in a representative sample in Switzerland	17

The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on gambling habit: A cross-sectional study from Italy	17
Low self-control and aggression exert serial mediation between inattention/hyperactivity problems and severity of internet gaming disorder features longitudinally among adolescents	17
Emotional regulation in eating disorders and gambling disorder: A transdiagnostic approach	17
The prospective effect of purpose in life on gambling disorder and psychological flourishing among university students	16
Problematic Internet use among residential college students during the COVID-19 lockdown: A social network analysis approach	16
Multidimensional family therapy reduces problematic gaming in adolescents: A randomised controlled trial	16
The stock market as a casino: Associations between stock market trading frequency and problem gambling	16
Structural characteristics of fixed-odds sports betting products	16
How have excessive electronics devices and Internet uses been concerned? Implications for global research agenda from a bibliometric analysis	16
A longitudinal study of the effects of problematic smartphone use on social functioning among people with schizophrenia: Mediating roles for sleep quality and self-stigma	16
Hands-off: Study protocol of a two-armed randomized controlled trial of a web-based self-help tool to reduce problematic pornography use	16
A pilot study of mindfulness-based relapse prevention for compulsive sexual behaviour disorder	15
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)	15
Gaming disorder and the COVID-19 pandemic: Treatment demand and service delivery challenges	15
Hands-off: Feasibility and preliminary results of a two-armed randomized controlled trial of a web-based self-help tool to reduce problematic pornography use	15
Temporal associations between physical activity and three types of problematic use of the internet: A six-month longitudinal study	15
Social media ‘addiction’: The absence of an attentional bias to social media stimuli	15
Problematic Internet Use in early adolescence: The role of attachment and negative beliefs about worry	14
Between two worlds: Exploring esports betting in relation to problem gambling, gaming, and mental health problems	14
Treatments and interventions for compulsive sexual behavior disorder with a focus on problematic pornography use: A preregistered systematic review	14
Enhanced neural responses in specific phases of reward processing in individuals with Internet gaming disorder	14
Prevalence of gaming disorder in East Asia: A comprehensive meta-analysis	14
Are esports bettors a new generation of harmed gamblers? A comparison with sports bettors on gambling involvement, problems, and harm	14
Desire thinking as a predictor of compulsive sexual behaviour in adolescents: Evidence from a cross-cultural validation of the Hebrew version of the Desire Thinking Questionnaire	14
The psychometric properties of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R) regarding Internet gaming disorder in a general population of Chinese adults	14
Internet use disorders: What's new and what's not?. •	14
Decreased effective connection from the parahippocampal gyrus to the prefrontal cortex in Internet gaming disorder: A MVPA and spDCM study	14
Emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic factor in eating disorders and gambling disorder: Treatment outcome implications	14
Response inhibition during processing of sexual stimuli in males with problematic hypersexual behavior	14
The Big Five personality traits and online gaming: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Sexual incentive delay in the scanner: Sexual cue and reward processing, and links to problematic porn consumption and sexual motivation	13
Withdrawal and tolerance as related to compulsive sexual behavior disorder and problematic pornography use – Preregistered study based on a nationally representative sample in Poland	13
Different cultures, similar daydream addiction? An examination of the cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale	13
Modelling the contribution of metacognitions and expectancies to problematic smartphone use	13
Gaming motivations and gaming disorder symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and gaming disorder: Frequency and associated factors in a clinical sample of patients with Gaming Disorder	13
Predictive utility of the brief Screener for Substance and Behavioral Addictions for identifying self-attributed problems	13
Compulsive sexual behavior, religiosity, and spirituality: A systematic review	13
Internet-based interventions for behavioral addictions: A systematic review	12
The prevention paradox applies to some but not all gambling harms: Results from a Finnish population-representative survey	12
Identifying the central symptoms of problematic social networking sites use through network analysis	12
Theoretical conceptualisations of problematic exercise in psychometric assessment instruments: A systematic review	12
The expanded interactional model of exercise addiction	12
Disorders due to addictive behaviors: Further issues, debates, and controversies •	12
Skin gambling predicts problematic gambling amongst adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling	11
Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder should not be classified by solely relying on component/symptomatic features •	11
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 of	11
Response trajectories of gambling severity after cognitive behavioral therapy in young-adult pathological gamblers	11
Getting “clean” from nonsuicidal self-injury: Experiences of addiction on the subreddit r/selfharm	11
The role of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in the treatment of behavioral addictions: Two case reports and review of the literature	11
The identification of Australian low-risk gambling limits: A comparison of gambling-related harm measures	11
Sports betting around the world: A systematic review	11
Measurement, prevalence, and psychological risk factors associated with addictive food consumption: Development of a new food addiction scale and evidence from a national largescale sample	11
Two-dimensional taxonomy of internet addiction and assessment of smartphone addiction with diagnostic criteria and mobile apps	11
More stringent criteria are needed for diagnosing internet gaming disorder: Evidence from regional brain features and whole-brain functional connectivity multivariate pattern analyses	10
Understanding the mechanics and consumer risks associated with play-to-earn (P2E) gaming	10
Awareness drives changes in reward value which predict eating behavior change: Probing reinforcement learning using experience sampling from mobile mindfulness training for maladaptive eating	10
Social comparisons: A potential mechanism linking problematic social media use with depression	10
The influence of chronological age on cognitive biases and impulsivity levels in male patients with gambling disorder	10
A comprehensive model to understand and assess the motivational background of video game use: The Gaming Motivation Inventory (GMI)	10
Aberrant orbitofrontal cortex reactivity to erotic cues in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder	10
Where to put Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder (CSBD)? Phenomenology matters •	10
Distress-driven impulsivity interacts with cognitive inflexibility to determine addiction-like eating	10
Request-a-bet sports betting products indicate patterns of bettor preference and bookmaker profits	10
Perceived problems with adolescent online gaming: National differences and correlations with substance use	10
Comparison of frontostriatal circuits in adolescent nicotine addiction and internet gaming disorder	10
Social-networks-related stimuli interferes decision making under ambiguity: Interactions with cue-induced craving and problematic social-networks use	10
Using deliberate mind-wandering to escape negative mood states: Implications for gambling to escape	9
Internet, gaming, and smartphone usage patterns of children and adolescents in Korea: A c-CURE clinical cohort study	9
Impaired disengagement of attention from computer-related stimuli in Internet Gaming Disorder: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence	9
Gambling disorder is associated with reduced sensitivity to expected value during risky choice	9
Problematic risk-taking involving emerging technologies: A stakeholder framework to minimize harms	9
Potentially addictive behaviours increase during the first six months of the Covid-19 pandemic	9
Psychometric properties of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale in a sample of Hungarian daydreaming-prone individuals	8
Impulsivity in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder and Pedophilic Disorder	8
Altered functional network activities for behavioral adjustments and Bayesian learning in young men with Internet gaming disorder	8
Another failure of the latent disease model? The case of compulsive sexual behavior disorder •	8
Joint effects of children’s emotional problems and parental depressive symptoms on the occurrence of internet gaming disorder among children and adolescents: A longitudinal study	8
Altered connectivity in the right inferior frontal gyrus associated with self-control in adolescents exhibiting problematic smartphone use: A fMRI study	8
Efficacy of short-term telemedicine motivation-based intervention for individuals with Internet Use Disorder – A pilot-study	8

Compulsive buying gradually increased during the first six months of the Covid-19 outbreak	8
Perfectionism predicts disordered eating and gambling via focused self-concept among those high in erroneous beliefs about their disordered behavior	8
The relationship between the skill-challenge balance, game expertise, flow and the urge to keep playing complex mobile games	8
The potential addictive mechanism involved in repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury: The roles of emotion dysregulation and impulsivity in adolescents	8
Loot box purchasing is linked to problem gambling in adolescents when controlling for monetary gambling participation	8
Food addiction and lifetime alcohol and illicit drugs use in specific eating disorders	8
Mental and sexual health perspectives of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder •	8
What does “Sexual” mean in compulsive sexual behavior disorder? •	8
Compulsive sexual behavior disorder in 42 countries: Insights from the International Sex Survey and introduction of standardized assessment tools	8
Examining the reliability of the scores of self-report instruments assessing problematic exercise: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
A daily diary investigation on the job-related affective experiences fueled by work addiction	7
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on addictive behavior and brain glucose metabolism in problematic online gamers	7
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 disorde	7
Longitudinal modifiable risk and protective factors of internet gaming disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Sugar Habit Hacker: Initial evidence that a planning intervention reduces sugar intake	7
Heart rate variability and interoceptive accuracy predict impaired decision-making in Gambling Disorder	7
Motivated attention to stimuli related to social networking sites: A cue-reactivity study	7
Comment on: Problematic online gaming and the COVID-19 pandemic – The role of exergames	7
Sex differences in neural substrates of risk taking: Implications for sex-specific vulnerabilities to internet gaming disorder	7
Family history of substance use disorders: Significance for mental health in young adults who gamble	7
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 longitu	7
Symptoms of problematic pornography use among help-seeking male adolescents: Latent profile and network analysis	7
Unambiguous evidence that over half of gambling problems in Australia are caused by electronic gambling machines: Results from a large-scale composite population study	6
Involvement in Sexaholics Anonymous and life satisfaction: The mediating role of meaning in life and hope	6
How gambling motives are associated with socio-demographics and gambling behavior - A Finnish population study	6
Associations between recalled use of legal UK youth gambling products and adult disordered gambling	6
Draconian policy measures are unlikely to prevent disordered gaming	6
Opposing associations of Internet Use Disorder symptom domains with structural and functional organization of the striatum: A dimensional neuroimaging approach	6
Identifying individuals in need of help for their uncontrolled gaming: A narrative review of concerns and comments regarding gaming disorder diagnostic criteria	6
On the pitfalls of conceptualizing excessive physical exercise as an addictive disorder: Commentary on Dinardi et al. (2021)	6
Problematic shopping and self-injurious behaviors in adolescents	6
Problematic use of digital media in children and adolescents with a diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder compared to controls. A meta-analysis	6
Caudate nucleus volume mediates the link between glutamatergic neurotransmission and problematic smartphone use in youth	6
Risk factors and outcomes of internet gaming disorder identified in Korean prospective adolescent cohort study	6
Brain structural co-development is associated with internalizing symptoms two years later in the ABCD cohort	6
Personal choice is a nuanced concept – Lessons learned from the gambling field. •	6
Electrophysiological evidence of enhanced early attentional bias toward sexual images in individuals with tendencies toward cybersex addiction	6
Dispositional and online-specific Fear of Missing Out are associated with the development of IUD symptoms in different internet applications	6
Craving in gambling disorder: A systematic review	6
An empirical study of affective and cognitive functions in Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder	6
Mobile and non-mobile Internet Use Disorder: Specific risks and possible shared Pavlovian conditioning processes. •	6
Addressing taxonomic challenges for Internet Use Disorders in light of changing technologies and diagnostic classifications. •	6
Development and validation of a prediction model for online gambling problems based on players' account data	6