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. 2020 Aug 6:12:100296.
doi: 10.1016/j.abrep.2020.100296. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Metacognitions and emotion recognition in Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents

Orkun Aydın  1 , Merve Güçlü  1 , Pınar Ünal-Aydın  1 , Marcantonio M Spada  2
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Metacognitions and emotion recognition in Internet Gaming Disorder among adolescents

Orkun Aydın et al. Addict Behav Rep. .

Abstract

Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) is associated with considerable psychological distress in adolescents. However, studies which strive to shed light on the developmental background of IGD are still sparse. We aimed to examine the role of metacognitions and emotion recognition in predicting IGD during the early adolescence period. Four hundred and seventy-seven secondary school students were recruited for the study. Participants completed the Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT), the Metacognitions Questionnaire for Children (MCQ-C), and the Children's Version of Reading the Mind in the Eye Test (RMET). Correlation analyses indicated that three factors of the MCQ-C (positive meta-worry, negative meta-worry, and superstition, punishment, and responsibility) and its total score were positively correlated with the majority of factors of the IGDT. The negative factor of the RMET was positively correlated with the salience, tolerance, and relapse factors and total score of the IGDT. Daily internet use was positively correlated with all factors of the IGDT and its total score. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that daily internet use and metacognitions (in different combinations) were significant independent predictors of IGDT factors and its total score, and that the negative factor of the RMET was a significant independent predictor of the salience and tolerance factors of IGDT and its total score. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Keywords: Adolescence; Emotion recognition; Internet Gaming Disorder; Metacognitions.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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