Problematizing excessive online gaming and its psychological predictors

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Highlights：

• Some psychological factors predict excessive use only by virtue of being examined in isolation.

• Only stress remained a significant predictor when all psychological factors were controlled for.

• All psychological factors lost significance when motivations for use were controlled for.

• Escapism and achievement motivations had high predictive power for excessive use (β > .350).

摘要

•Some psychological factors predict excessive use only by virtue of being examined in isolation.•Only stress remained a significant predictor when all psychological factors were controlled for.•All psychological factors lost significance when motivations for use were controlled for.•Escapism and achievement motivations had high predictive power for excessive use (β > .350).

论文关键词：Online gaming addiction,Excessive internet use,Internet addiction,Gaming motivations,Compensatory internet use

论文评审过程：Available online 1 November 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.10.017