Trastorno por juego en Internet: ¿Existen diferencias en cuanto al género?

Julio César Torales; Marcelo Gerardo O’Higgins; Juan Iván Barrios; Oscar Enrique García; Israel Alcides González

doi:10.18004/anales/2020.053.01.93-100

Authors

Julio César Torales Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Cátedra de Psiquiatría. Asunción, Paraguay.
Marcelo Gerardo O’Higgins Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Cátedra de Psiquiatría. Asunción, Paraguay.
Juan Iván Barrios Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Cátedra de Psiquiatría. Asunción, Paraguay.
Oscar Enrique García Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Cátedra de Psiquiatría. Asunción, Paraguay.
Israel Alcides González Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas, Cátedra de Psiquiatría. Asunción, Paraguay.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18004/anales/2020.053.01.93-100

Keywords:

Internet Gaming Disorder, Biological factors, Psychological factors, Gender, Paraguay

Abstract

The body of evidence for Internet Gaming Disorder is growing. Both psychological and biological factors are involved in its etiopathogenesis and these factors may present different levels of contribution to the disorder depending on the gender of the patient. Taking into account that the rate of male individuals compared with the female rate in the Internet Gaming Disorder is about 3:1 and that most of the available studies are done in predominantly male populations, a non-systematic narrative review was done, focused on primary literature and selected from a search in PubMed and SciELO databases. The key terms used were: “Internet gaming disorder” and “Internet gaming disorder and gender”. All members of the research team participated in the review of the literature. All the above was done in order to present a general picture about gender differences in online games, which can be used to improve the knowledge of mental health workers about this challenging group of patients.

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