Demonstrating the validity of the Video Game Functional Assessment-Revised (VGFA-R)

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Highlights：

• We validated and standardized an indirect functional assessment on video gaming.

• The assessment examines the motivation of individual's video game playing.

• Attention, escape, and tangible functions are the ​three primary maintaining functions.

• The VGFA-R can benefit therapists providing therapy for internet gaming disorder.

摘要

•We validated and standardized an indirect functional assessment on video gaming.•The assessment examines the motivation of individual's video game playing.•Attention, escape, and tangible functions are the ​three primary maintaining functions.•The VGFA-R can benefit therapists providing therapy for internet gaming disorder.

论文关键词：Video game addiction,Functional assessment,Validity,Problematic gaming,Internet gaming disorder

论文评审过程：Received 19 May 2015, Revised 29 July 2015, Accepted 24 August 2015, Available online 10 September 2015, Version of Record 10 September 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.08.037