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behavioral addiction

form of addiction that involves a compulsion to engage in a rewarding non-drug-related behavior despite any negative consequences to the person's physical, mental, social or financial well-being
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behavioral addiction

Summary

behavioral addiction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (170 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • behavioral addiction's GND ID is recorded as 4227475-8[2].
  • behavioral addiction's subclass of is recorded as addiction[3].
  • behavioral addiction's subclass of is recorded as impulse control disorder[4].
  • behavioral addiction's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Behavioral addiction[5].
  • behavioral addiction's drug or therapy used for treatment is recorded as behavioral addiction treatment[6].
  • behavioral addiction's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11bc6kbw8s[7].
  • behavioral addiction's UMLS CUI is recorded as CL508424[8].
  • behavioral addiction's Quora topic ID is recorded as Behavioral-Addiction[9].
  • behavioral addiction's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777271380[10].
  • behavioral addiction's ICD-11 ID is recorded as 499894965[11].
  • behavioral addiction's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2777271380[12].
  • behavioral addiction's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as medicine-and-dentistry/behavioral-addiction[13].
  • behavioral addiction's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as neuroscience/behavioral-addiction[14].
  • behavioral addiction's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as nursing-and-health-professions/behavioral-addiction[15].
  • behavioral addiction's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/behavioral-addiction[16].

Why It Matters

behavioral addiction ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (170 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  8. [9] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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