Dr Zaheer Hussain

Research and Teaching Blog

Recent research publications

Hussain, Z., & Starcevic, V. (2020). Problematic Social Networking Site Use: A Brief Review of Recent Research Methods and the Way Forward. Current Opinion in Psychology, 36, 89-95. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.05.007  

Hussain, Z., & Pontes, H. M. (2019). Personality, Internet Addiction, and Other Technological Addictions: A Psychological Examination of Personality Traits and Technological Addictions. In Management Association, I. (Ed.), Substance Abuse and Addiction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 236-262). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-7666-2.ch012

Giagkou, S., Hussain, Z., & Pontes, H. M. (2018). Exploring the interplay between passive following on Facebook, fear of missing out, self-esteem, social comparison, age, and life satisfaction in a community-based sample. International Journal of Psychology & Behavior Analysis4:149. doi: 10.15344/2455-3867/2018/149.

Hussain, Z., & Griffiths, M. D. (2018). Problematic Social Networking Site Use and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review of Recent Large-Scale Studies. Frontiers in Psychiatry9, 686. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00686

Hussain, Z., Simonovic, B., Stupple, E.J.N., & Austin, M. (2019). Using Eye Tracking to Explore Facebook Use and Associations with Facebook Addiction, Mental Well-being, and Personality. Behavioural Sciences, 9(2), 19. doi: 10.3390/bs9020019

Hussain, Z. & Pontes, H.M. (2019). Personality, Internet Addiction, and Other Technological Addictions: An Update of the Research Literature. In B. Bozoglan (Ed.), Multifaceted Approach to Digital Addiction and Its Treatment (pp. 46-72). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8449-0.ch003

McGivern, P., Hussain, Z., Lipka, S., & Stupple, E. (2019). The impact of pop-up warning messages of losses on expenditure in a simulated game of online roulette: a pilot study. BMC Public Health, 19:822. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7191-5

Malik, A., Hiekkanen, K., Hussain, Z., Hamari, J., & Johri, A. (2019). How players across gender and age experience Pokémon Go? Universal Access in the Information Society, 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s10209-019-00694-7

Hussain, Z. & Griffiths, M.D. (2019). The Associations between Problematic Social Networking Site Use, and Sleep Quality, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, and Stress. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. doi: 10.1007/s11469-019-00175-1