Is it beneficial to use Internet-communication for escaping from boredom? Boredom proneness interacts with cue-induced craving and avoidance expectancies in explaining symptoms of Internet-communication disorder

Elisa Wegmann; Sina Ostendorf; Matthias Brand

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195742

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Is it beneficial to use Internet-communication for escaping from boredom? Boredom proneness interacts with cue-induced craving and avoidance expectancies in explaining symptoms of Internet-communication disorder

Elisa Wegmann,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of General Psychology, Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-979X

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Sina Ostendorf,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Psychology, Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
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Matthias Brand

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: matthias.brand@uni-due.de

Affiliations Department of General Psychology, Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Essen, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-9542

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Is it beneficial to use Internet-communication for escaping from boredom? Boredom proneness interacts with cue-induced craving and avoidance expectancies in explaining symptoms of Internet-communication disorder

Elisa Wegmann,
Sina Ostendorf,
Matthias Brand

Published: April 19, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195742

About the Authors

Elisa Wegmann

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of General Psychology, Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-979X

Sina Ostendorf

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Psychology, Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Matthias Brand

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: matthias.brand@uni-due.de

Affiliations Department of General Psychology, Cognition and Center for Behavioral Addiction Research (CeBAR), University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Essen, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-9542

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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