Validation and Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of the 21-Item Game Addiction Scale With a Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults

Background: Excessive gaming has become a psychological health issue for both gamers and their social environments. This observation holds true for western but also non-western countries such as Iran. The aim of the present study was to translate and validate a Persian version of the Game Addiction...

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Main Authors: Nasrin Abdoli, Vahid Farnia, Mostafa Alikhani, Dena Sadeghi-Bahmani, Kenneth M. Dürsteler, Maryam Esmaeili, Annette Brühl, Serge Brand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.649276/full