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Defoe, Ivy N.; Semon Dubas, Judith; Somerville, Leah H.; Lugtig, Peter; van Aken, Marcel A. G. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the initiation and peak of many harmful risk-taking behaviors such as smoking, which is among the most addictive and deadliest behaviors. Generic metatheories like the theory of triadic influence (TTI) suggest that interrelated risk factors across multiple domains (i.e., intrapersonal and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Smoking, At Risk Persons, Addictive Behavior
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Lemmens, Jeroen S.; Valkenburg, Patti M.; Peter, Jochen – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Studies have shown that pathological involvement with computer or video games is related to excessive gaming binges and aggressive behavior. Our aims for this study were to longitudinally examine if pathological gaming leads to increasingly excessive gaming habits, and how pathological gaming may cause an increase in physical aggression. For this…
Descriptors: Video Games, Aggression, Males, Addictive Behavior