Defining game addiction. After describing Internet
addiction as a clinical disorder, Young developed eight
diagnostic criteria based on gambling addiction criteria [15].
In practice, clinics and hospitals are still in the process of
defining Internet addiction symptoms—for instance, the
inability to stop the activity to the point of neglecting
family or friends [5]. A consensus has yet to be achieved
among researchers, therefore criteria have yet to be
accepted by the body that publishes DSM-IV(Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). A number of
researchers argue that criteria for pathological gambling
disorders are not suitable for examining pathological
computer behaviors