Research
Academic research on addiction, organized with metadata and summaries.
Workaholism: Definition, Measurement, and Preliminary Results
Questionnaires were developed to assess the concept of workaholism, defined in terms of high scores on measures of work involvement and driv…
View original ↗Workaholism, Burnout, and Work Engagement: Three of a Kind or Three Different Kinds of Employee Well‐being?
The present study investigated in a sample of 587 telecom managers whether workaholism, burnout, and work engagement—the supposed antipode o…
View original ↗Cell-Phone Addiction: A Review
We present a review of the studies that have been published about addiction to cell phones. We analyse the concept of cell phone addiction a…
View original ↗How can we conceptualize behavioural addiction without pathologizing common behaviours?
Following the recent changes to the diagnostic category for addictive disorders in DSM-5, it is urgent to clarify what constitutes behaviour…
View original ↗Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research
Background Behavioral addiction research has been particularly flourishing over the last two decades. However, recent publications have sugg…
View original ↗In search of how people change: Applications to addictive behaviors.
How people intentionally change addictive behaviors with and without treatment is not well understood by behavioral scientists. This article…
View original ↗Short-Term Effects of Nose-Only Cigarette Smoke Exposure on Glutathione Redox Homeostasis, Cytochrome P450 1A1/2 and Respiratory Enzyme Activities in Mice Tissues
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The components of cigarette smoke (CS) have been implicated in the development of cancer as well as in cardiopulmonary dise…
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