Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior?
In today's society, various affections are constantly appearing, and both the audiovisual media and part of the scientific community are coining new terms to name them. For some years, there has been a discussion of the so-called behavioral addictions and all are supposed to be familiar disease...
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Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos
2017-04-01
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| author | María Magdalena Caro Mantilla |
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| description | In today's society, various affections are constantly appearing, and both the audiovisual media and part of the scientific community are coining new terms to name them. For some years, there has been a discussion of the so-called behavioral addictions and all are supposed to be familiar diseases such as addiction to work, shopping, exercise, etcetera. With the arrival of new technologies, the avalanche of diseases has increased even more. It has emerge the idea of addiction to video games, to mobile, to the internet and in recent years, to social networks, among others; however, to what extent they are true addictions, is a subject of deep debate, since they are not recognized as diseases in the current official classifications. The objective of this review is to contribute new elements to the technological addiction topic, according to the current mental health classification, about the new technologies impact on people’s behavior, and from the growing controversy perspective of considering them pathological or simply adaptive behaviors. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-11782e3cc3ca418ead53fee687d4113b2024-03-04T23:09:46ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2017-04-011522512601430Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior?María Magdalena Caro Mantilla0Hospital Psiquiatrico. CienfuegosIn today's society, various affections are constantly appearing, and both the audiovisual media and part of the scientific community are coining new terms to name them. For some years, there has been a discussion of the so-called behavioral addictions and all are supposed to be familiar diseases such as addiction to work, shopping, exercise, etcetera. With the arrival of new technologies, the avalanche of diseases has increased even more. It has emerge the idea of addiction to video games, to mobile, to the internet and in recent years, to social networks, among others; however, to what extent they are true addictions, is a subject of deep debate, since they are not recognized as diseases in the current official classifications. The objective of this review is to contribute new elements to the technological addiction topic, according to the current mental health classification, about the new technologies impact on people’s behavior, and from the growing controversy perspective of considering them pathological or simply adaptive behaviors.http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/3279desarrollo tecnológicoredes socialesconducta adictivaadaptación psicológica |
| spellingShingle | María Magdalena Caro Mantilla Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior? Medisur desarrollo tecnológico redes sociales conducta adictiva adaptación psicológica |
| title | Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior? |
| title_full | Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior? |
| title_fullStr | Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior? |
| title_short | Technological Addictions: Disease or Adaptive Behavior? |
| title_sort | technological addictions disease or adaptive behavior |
| topic | desarrollo tecnológico redes sociales conducta adictiva adaptación psicológica |
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