Selfitis, selfie addiction, Twitteritis: Irresistible appeal of medical terminology for problematic behaviours in the digital age

摘要: Behaviours that are performed compulsively and repetitively associated with certain negative consequences have been a conceptual challenge for psychopathology. They usually labelled as behavioural addictions, although this term has vague, misused applied to an exceptionally wide variety of activities (Starcevic, 2016). A similar trend medicalise problematic behaviours appeared more recently, emergence ‘selfitis’ (Balakrishnan Griffiths, in press). This article draws attention these troublesome tendencies aims shed light on their origin implications. exhaustive understanding the deficits binge drinking, well possible transition towards alcohol-dependence. Methods: 46 young adults (23 drinkers, 12 women; 23 control participants, women) were recruited among university students. emotional recognition task consisting visual decoding of six basic emotions (i.e. anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness). Accuracy scores detection thresholds collected each emotion. Results: Binge drinkers showed lower performance than participants all and increased detection threshold, later reflecting less ability capture emotion. drinking is thus associated need higher intensity perform correct detection. Moreover, emotional difficulties appear specifically related alcohol consumption. Conclusion: These findings reinforce previous experimental evidence altered processing among binge extend results various contents. support hypothesis a continuum between alcohol-dependence, which massive impairments have been documented. Indeed, could be involved onset maintenance excessive alcohol consumption, notably through established relationship social distress.