Personal distress as a mediator between self-esteem, self-efficacy, loneliness and problematic video gaming in female and male emerging adult gamers

• Andrzej Cudo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrzej Cudo, Natalia Kopiś, Emilia Zabielska-Mendyk

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: andrew.cudo@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7424-8576

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• Natalia Kopiś ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrzej Cudo, Natalia Kopiś, Emilia Zabielska-Mendyk

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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• Emilia Zabielska-Mendyk

  Contributed equally to this work with: Andrzej Cudo, Natalia Kopiś, Emilia Zabielska-Mendyk

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

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