Impulsivity facets and internet gaming disorder symptoms in male adolescents with ADHD: an exploratory cross-sectional study from Turkiye
Sarper İçen, Şefika Nurhüda Karaca Cengiz · 2026
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Sarper İçen and Şefika Nurhüda Karaca Cengiz present a 2026 exploratory study of impulsivity and internet gaming disorder symptoms in teenage boys with ADHD. Adolescents with ADHD face elevated risk of problem gaming. It was unclear whether different sides of impulsivity, such as acting without planning, relate to different gaming symptoms.
The study recruited 45 male adolescents aged 12 to 17 from two psychiatry clinics in Türkiye. Most gamed over four hours daily, 73.3% on weekdays and 75.6% on weekends. Gaming symptom scores rose with non-planning impulsivity (ρ = 0.56), attentional impulsivity (ρ = 0.52), and motor impulsivity (ρ = 0.45). When all three were modeled together, only non-planning impulsivity stayed independently associated with symptom severity. Age showed no significant correlation with impulsivity or gaming severity. The authors frame these as exploratory links needing confirmation in larger samples.
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| CREATOR | Sarper İçen, Şefika Nurhüda Karaca Cengiz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40051 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |