Objective To evaluate the state of the literature for whether food addiction may warrant
consideration as a distinct psychiatric disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual …

Participation in social media sites may be attractive to millions of users as it offers many
social and emotional rewards. However, relying on social media sites for relief from …

Concerns have been raised about excessive or “addictive” phone use among adolescents,
and the impact that addictive phone use (APU) can have on adolescent development and …

Food addiction (FA) is a concept centered around the addictive potential of highly palatable
processed foods, though there is debate over the discriminative validity of FA as a distinct …

Background Milk tea has experienced tremendous growth in popularity in China, especially
among youths. The primary objective of this study is to investigate whether milk tea addiction …

Purpose Childhood trauma is associated with increased risk of obesity during adulthood,
which may be associated with the development of food addiction. This study examined …

There is accumulating evidence that mukbang (ie, eating broadcasts) watching may be
another emerging online behaviour that has the potential to become uncontrolled and …

The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) is the most commonly used scale for measuring food
addiction (FA). The previous approach to the YFAS and its subsequent versions assumed …

Alexithymia is associated with a diverse range of addictive behaviours including exercise
addiction symptoms. In addition, emerging research indicates that emotional regulation and …

Objective Food Addiction (FA) and other well-known risk behavior as substance misuse tend
to co-occur and may share similar risk and protective factors. The aim of this study was to …