https://www.albertahealthservi...tinuum-of-gaming.pdf
- online toolkit focuses on the problematic use of digital technology, for service providers
- Risk Factors and Personality Traits Emerging research is exploring the connection between personality traits, risk factors, and problematic gaming.
- Personality traits that correlate with problematic gaming among youth are: impulsive decision making, sensation-seeking behavior, low extraversion
- Lists Gaming Disorder Warning Signs such as preoccupation and obsessive thought patterns about internet use, problematic behaviors, problematic thoughts, including self-doubt, low self-efficacy and negative self-appraisal, negative self-view, so a person uses internet to create a different version of themselves, as well as gain feedback, belief that one has more competence, confidence, comfort, and self-worth with online interactions and communications than with face-to-face contact.