Criteria | Items | |
Peripheral | Salience (cognitive) | I often think about online video games when I am not playing. |
Euphoria | I sense a “high” when playing online video games. | |
Tolerance | I must play online games for longer periods of time to get the same enjoyment. | |
Core | Salience (behavioral) | I skip sleep to play online video games. |
I delay using the bathroom to play online video games. | ||
I skip bathing and other personal hygiene to play online video games. | ||
I skip meals to play online video games. | ||
Withdrawal | I feel frustrated, restless, and/or irritable when I cannot play online video games. | |
Relapse | I failed trying to quit playing online video games. | |
Conflict (interpersonal) | I have lied to others about how much time I spend playing online video games. | |
I feel that I am scheduling my life around my online video game play. | ||
Playing online video games has caused me relationship problems. | ||
Playing online video games has caused me academic problems. |