Is dysfunctional use of the mobile phone a behavioural addiction? Confronting symptom-based versus process-based approaches
Billieux and colleagues compared a symptom-based description drawn from the addiction model with a process-based description for one person's heavy mobile phone use. They argued the process-based description captured more, and that framing behaviours such as gambling, sex and internet use as addictions can oversimplify a person's psychological functioning.
Billieux and colleagues compared a symptom-based description drawn from the addiction model with a process-based description for one person's heavy mobile phone use. They argued the process-based description captured more, and that framing behaviours such as gambling, sex and internet use as addictions can oversimplify a person's psychological functioning.
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Billieux, J., Philippot, P., Schmid, C., Maurage, P., De Mol, J., & Van der Linden, M. (2015). Is dysfunctional use of the mobile phone a behavioural addiction? Confronting symptom-based versus process-based approaches. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 22(5), 460-468. doi:10.1002/cpp.1910 https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.1910