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World?s First PhD in Game Addiction?

By pete_gallagher

Dr. Jeroen Lemmens is a teacher at the University of Amsterdam and just last week successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD, which he believes makes him the world's first possessor of a PhD in game addiction.

Dr.  Lemmens' dissertation consisted of four articles, which are summarized in a paper entitled Causes and Consequences of Pathological Gaming (PDF). According to the doctor, it's the first time longitudinal analyses were utilized in order to reveal the causes and consequences of pathological involvement with games.

The paper's underlying claim is that 'adolescent gamers with pre?existing psychosocial vulnerabilities, such as loneliness, low social competence, and low self?esteem, are more likely to become pathologically involved with games.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on November 16, 2010 (boomark / email).