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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