PMID- 38248263
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20240128
IS  - 2076-3425 (Print)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Electronic)
IS  - 2076-3425 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 1
DP  - 2024 Jan 3
TI  - Could the Construct of Modern-Type Depression Predict Internet Gaming Disorder in 
      Italian Video Gamers? A Case-Control Study.
LID - 10.3390/brainsci14010048 [doi]
LID - 48
AB  - A new postmodern depression type, named "Modern-Type Depression" (MTD), is 
      emerging in Western countries. MTD is often underdiagnosed, mainly due to 
      potentially higher comorbidity with technology-based addictions, including 
      Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). However, the definition of the relationship 
      between MTD and IGD is still controversial, as few data have been published thus 
      far. In particular, there are no data specifically investigating the prevalence 
      of MTD within Italian young subjects with IGD, as well as their mutual 
      association. Hence, within the SWATCH (Social Withdrawal and TeCno-mediated 
      mental Health issues) project, our study aimed to identify the prevalence of MTD 
      in a sample of Italian young adults who play video games by providing a clinical 
      characterization of MTD within a group of IGD individuals (IGD+) versus a group 
      without IGD (IGD-) who play video games. Our cross-sectional case-control study 
      recruited a sample of 543 Italian young video-gaming players (aged 18-35) from 
      the larger SWATCH database, stratified as IGD+ versus IGD-. Subjects were 
      administered the 22-item Tarumi's Modern-Type Depression Trait Scale (TACS-22), 
      the Motives for Online Gaming Questionnaire (MOGQ), and the Internet Gaming 
      Disorder Scale-Short Form (IGDS9-SF). Around 21.7% of the total sample was 
      represented by MTD individuals, while within the IGD sample, around 34% of 
      subjects had MTD. Within the MTD group, significantly higher scores at IGDS-9SF 
      (p < 0.001), MOGQ "Escape from reality" (p < 0.001), "Fantasy" (p < 0.001), and 
      MOGQ total score (p = 0.003) were found compared to MTD-. According to the 
      multivariate regression model, controlled for sex and age, higher scores in the 
      TACS-22 were positively predicted by the total score of IGDS9-SF (p = 0.003), the 
      MOGQ "Escape from Reality" subscale (p = 0.014), and MOGQ "Fantasy" (p = 0.011), 
      and negatively predicted by the MOGQ "Competition" subscale (p = 0.035) [F (4538) 
      = 17.265; p < 0.001]. Our findings suggested that MTD displays a strong 
      association with IGD. Video-gaming players who do not have IGD appear to be less 
      prone to MTD; this suggests that further studies could be carried out to 
      specifically investigate whether pathological use of video games could also be 
      determined by the presence of MTD.
FAU - Orsolini, Laura
AU  - Orsolini L
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6882-3770
AD  - Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, 
      Polytechnic University of Marche, 60126 Ancona, Italy.
FAU - Longo, Giulio
AU  - Longo G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2994-9095
AD  - Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, 
      Polytechnic University of Marche, 60126 Ancona, Italy.
FAU - Bellagamba, Silvia
AU  - Bellagamba S
AD  - Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, 
      Polytechnic University of Marche, 60126 Ancona, Italy.
FAU - Kato, Takahiro A
AU  - Kato TA
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5169-2930
AD  - Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu 
      University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.
FAU - Volpe, Umberto
AU  - Volpe U
AD  - Unit of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Clinical Neurosciences/DIMSC, 
      Polytechnic University of Marche, 60126 Ancona, Italy.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240103
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Brain Sci
JT  - Brain sciences
JID - 101598646
PMC - PMC10813306
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD)
OT  - Modern-Type Depression (MTD)
OT  - post-modern depression
OT  - technopathies
OT  - video-gamers
OT  - youth mental health
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. All authors declare that the 
      research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial 
      relationships that could be constructed as potential conflicts of interest.
EDAT- 2024/01/22 06:42
MHDA- 2024/01/22 06:43
PMCR- 2024/01/03
CRDT- 2024/01/22 04:37
PHST- 2023/12/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/12/31 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2024/01/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/01/22 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2024/01/22 06:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/01/22 04:37 [entrez]
PHST- 2024/01/03 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - brainsci14010048 [pii]
AID - brainsci-14-00048 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/brainsci14010048 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Brain Sci. 2024 Jan 3;14(1):48. doi: 10.3390/brainsci14010048.