Table A1.
Label | Criterion |
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A. | Mental preoccupation with gaming |
B. | Withdrawal symptoms |
C. | Tolerance/increase of dosage (gaming time) |
D. | Failures to gain gaming control |
E. | Loss of previous interests or prior hobbies |
F. | Continuation of gaming despite insight into adverse consequences |
G. | Lying to significant others in respect of factual gaming |
H. | Gaming in order to regulate negative moods (‘escape’) |
I. | Elevated risk of losing an important social relationship (job/education) |
Notes. For assuming an IGD, a person’s gaming behavior must have matched at least 5 out of these 9 criteria in the past 12 months. See details in APA [11].