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To attain repetitive play, developers use game design elements based on psychological mechanisms that promote player investment on a long-term basis ( Charlton & Danforth, 2007 King et al., 2010, 2011). As the products of a profit-oriented industry, the objective of game developers and publishers is to create attractive and enjoyable games that are played by as many gamers as possible for as long as possible as this increases revenue streams for the gaming industry. Despite the controversy of how problematic should be termed, many scholars have claimed that video gaming has a high addictive potential (e.g., King, Delfabbro, & Griffiths, 2010, 2011).

Although there is a lack of longitudinal studies ( Scharkow, Festl, & Quandt, 2014), it appears that the development of problematic video game use is a complex process comprising many different contributing factors ( Kuss & Griffiths, 2012). Much of the literature deals with potential correlates or factors associated with problematic gaming. Apart from the definitional and conceptual debate, scholars tend to agree that problematic gaming exists in a sense that the aforementioned minority of gamers play so excessively that their life suffers detrimentally as a consequence ( Griffiths et al., 2016 Király, Griffiths, et al., 2015). The inclusion stirred a heated debate among scholars some of whom argued that it is too early to label this problem behavior a genuine addiction regardless of the shared similarities with substance use disorders or gambling disorder (see Griffiths et al., 2016 Király, Griffiths, & Demetrovics, 2015). Section III of the DSM-5 (entitled “Emerging Measures and Models”) comprises those mental problems that need further empirical evidence to be considered as mental disorders to be included in the main DSM text. In this context, there is a growing recognition of the potential benefits to introducing and expanding international efforts to prevent the onset and progression of excessive gaming behaviors in vulnerable populations (for further insight, see King & Delfabbro, 2017 King et al., 2017).

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Consequently, problematic gaming has come to the attention of clinicians and researchers in many countries around the world leading to a growing literature in the field and to its recent inclusion in Section III of the latest (fifth) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5 American Psychiatric Association, 2013) under the name of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). Unfortunately, similar to other highly rewarding activities, a minority of gamers pursue the activity in such an excessive manner that it leads to negative life consequences (i.e., impaired interpersonal relationships, decrease in work or educational performance, neglected personal hygiene and other needs, etc.) ( Király, Nagygyörgy, Griffiths, & Demetrovics, 2014 Männikkö, Billieux, & Kääriäinen, 2015).

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Recent technological development has seen video gaming become one of the most popular leisure time activities across both genders and all age groups ( Entertainment Software Association, 2015).