Examining common information technology addictions and their relationships with non-technology-related addictions

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Highlights:

• There is a common factor underlying types of information technology addiction (ITA).

• ITA is related to other behavioral addictions as well as substance addictions.

• ITA has relatively stronger relationships with behavioral than substance addictions.

摘要

•There is a common factor underlying types of information technology addiction (ITA).•ITA is related to other behavioral addictions as well as substance addictions.•ITA has relatively stronger relationships with behavioral than substance addictions.

论文关键词:Information technology addiction,Internet addiction,Cyber addiction,Behavioral addiction,Substance addiction

论文评审过程:Received 22 July 2016, Revised 19 April 2017, Accepted 28 May 2017, Available online 29 May 2017, Version of Record 4 June 2017.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.05.041