Behavioral Addiction to Technology

Special collection of APA’s Technology, Mind, & Behavior includes articles published by the journal between 2022 and 2023. This special collection focuses on research exploring different aspects of technology-mediated interaction and its relationship with “addiction.”

Nick Bowman (Syracuse University, United States), Douglas A. Gentile (Iowa State University, United States), C. Shawn Green (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States), and Tracy Markle (Digital Media Treatment and Education Center, United States)

Tobias Dienlin (University of Vienna, Austria), Stephanie Diez-Morel (Pennsylvania Western University, United States), Chris Ferguson (Stetson University, United States), Peter Gerhardstein (Binghamton University, United States), Daniel Kaufmann (Grand Canyon University, United States), Eugene Agboifo Ohu (Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria), Akiko Shibuya (Seijo University, Japan), Vasileios Stavropoulos (Victoria University, Australia), An-Pyng Sun (University of Nevada-Las Vegas, United States)

• Behavioral Addiction to Technology
  Volume 5, Issue 4
  Pages 171
  Nicholas David Bowman, C. Shawn Green
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000143

• ABCs or Attack–Boom–Crash? A Longitudinal Analysis of Associations Between Media Content and the Development of Problematic Media Use in Early Childhood
  Volume 3, Issue 4
  Pages 516–523
  Sarah M. Coyne, Hailey G. Holmgren, Jane E. Shawcroft, Rachel Barr, Emilie Davis, Sarah Ashby, Laura Stockdale, Sarah Domoff
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000093
• The Design of Social Media Platforms—Initial Evidence on Relations Between Personality, Fear of Missing Out, Design Element-Driven Increased Social Media Use, and Problematic Social Media Use
  Volume 3, Issue 4
  Pages 524–538
  Cornelia Sindermann, Christian Montag, Jon D. Elhai
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000096
• Factors Related to the Occurrence of and Recovery From Gaming Disorder: A Qualitative Study
  Volume 4, Issue 1
  Pages 91–103
  An-Pyng Sun, Hilarie Cash, Lawrence Mullen, Cosette Rae
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000101
• Online Behavioral Addictions: Longitudinal Network Analysis and Invariance Across Men and Women
  Volume 4, Issue 2
  Pages 183–194
  Daniel Zarate, Genevieve Dorman, Maria Prokofieva, Romana Morda, Vasileios Stavropoulos
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000105
• Behavioral Functions Associated With Wanting to Reduce Internet Use
  Volume 4, Issue 2
  Pages 208–214
  Elizabeth G. E. Kyonka, Salma Garcia, Ezekiel C. Torres, Rinisha Naidu
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000107
• Differential Predictors of Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Video Gaming Among School Children: A 2-Year Longitudinal Study
  Volume 4, Issue 2
  Pages 195–207
  El-Lim Kim, Douglas A. Gentile, Hyekyung Choo, Albert Kienfie Liau, Dongdong Li, Angeline Khoo
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000109
• Adolescents’ Problematic Social Media Use: Agreement and Discrepancies Between Self- Versus Mother- and Father-Reports
  Volume 4, Issue 2
  Pages 171–182
  Suzanne M. Geurts, Helen G. M. Vossen, Regina J. J. M. Van den Eijnden, Ina M. Koning
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000110
• The Effect of Self-Monitoring Limited Social Media Use on Psychological Well-Being
  Volume 4, Issue 2
  Pages 161–170
  Manuela Ellen Faulhaber, Jeong Eun Lee, Douglas A. Gentile
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000111
• Structures for Screens: Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Media Rules and Problematic Media Use in Early Childhood
  Volume 4, Issue 2
  Pages 151–160
  Jane Shawcroft, Hallie Blake, Alexi Gonzalez, Sarah M. Coyne
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000104
• Evaluation of the Brief Internet Gaming Screen–8 in a U.S. Based Clinical Inpatient Sample
  Volume 4, Issue 3
  Pages 263–270
  Stephanie L. Diez, Julia Brailovskaia, Daniel Kaufmann, Omar Husain, Cosette Rae, Hilarie Cash
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000112
• The Digital Media Overuse Scale (dMOS): A Modular and Extendible Questionnaire for Indexing Digital Media Overuse
  Volume 4, Issue 3
  Pages 271–285
  D. Hipp, E. C. Blakley, N. Hipp, P. Gerhardstein, B. Kennedy, T. Markle
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000117
• Development of a Novel Method of Assessing Potential Loss of Control in Internet Gaming Disorder
  Volume 4, Issue 4
  Pages 362–375
  Zachary Demko, Tingting Liu, Brenda Curtis, C. Shawn Green
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000119
• Social Media Use: Attitudes, “Detox,” and Craving in Typical and Frequent Users
  Volume 4, Issue 4
  Pages 352–361
  David J. Robertson, Johanna Malin, Sophie Martin, Stephen H. Butler, Bev John, Martin Graff, Paul Flowers, Benedict C. Jones
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000120
• Problematic Media Use: Comparisons by Media Type and With Other Addictive Behavior and Substance Use Domains
  Volume 4, Issue 4
  Pages 335–351
  Morgan E. Ellithorpe, Samuel M. Tham, Dar Meshi
  https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000116