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Róbert Urbán is affiliated with Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary. Their research spans primarily the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with significant contributions in Clinical Psychology, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics including Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Media Influence and Health, Impact of Technology on Adolescents, Gambling Behavior and Treatments, and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development.

Frequent publication venues for Róbert Urbán include:

  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • BMC Public Health
  • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
  • Addictive Behaviors Reports

Among the most cited recent papers authored or co-authored by Róbert Urbán are:

  • The psychological consequences of the ecological crisis: Three new questionnaires to assess eco-anxiety, eco-guilt, and ecological grief, 2022, Climate Risk Management
  • Co-occurrences of substance use and other potentially addictive behaviors: Epidemiological results from the Psychological and Genetic Factors of the Addictive Behaviors (PGA) Study, 2020, Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • The 21-item Barratt Impulsiveness Scale Revised (BIS-R-21): An alternative three-factor model, 2020, Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • A comprehensive model to understand and assess the motivational background of video game use: The Gaming Motivation Inventory (GMI), 2022, Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • Targeting the problem of treatment non-adherence among mentally ill patients: The impact of loss, grief and stigma, 2020, Psychiatry Research

Róbert Urbán collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Zsolt Demetrovics
  • Zsolt Horváth
  • Gyöngyi Kökönyei
  • Mark D. Griffiths
  • Orsolya Király

Best Publications

  • Why do you play? The development of the motives for online gaming questionnaire (MOGQ)

    Zsolt Demetrovics;Róbert Urbán;Katalin Nagygyörgy;Judit Farkas

  • Exercise Addiction: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Epidemiology, and Etiology

    Krisztina Berczik;Attila Szabó;Mark D Griffiths;Tamás Kurimay

  • Problematic Internet Use and Problematic Online Gaming Are Not the Same: Findings from a Large Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample

    Orsolya Király;Mark D. Griffiths;Róbert Urbán;Judit Farkas

  • Validation of the ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10) and evaluation of the nine DSM-5 internet gaming disorder criteria

    Orsolya Király;Pawel Sleczka;Halley M. Pontes;Róbert Urbán

  • Morningness-eveningness, chronotypes and health-impairing behaviors in adolescents.

    Róbert Urbán;Tímea Magyaródi;Adrien Rigó

  • The Development of the Problematic Online Gaming Questionnaire (POGQ)

    Zsolt Demetrovics;Róbert Urbán;Katalin Nagygyörgy;Judit Farkas

  • The Mediating Effect of Gaming Motivation Between Psychiatric Symptoms and Problematic Online Gaming: An Online Survey

    Orsolya Király;Róbert Urbán;Mark D Griffiths;Csilla Ágoston

  • Psychometric properties and concurrent validity of two exercise addiction measures: A population wide study

    Kata Mónok;Krisztina Berczik;Róbert Urbán;Attila Szabo

  • Bifactor structural model of symptom checklists: SCL-90-R and Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) in a non-clinical community sample

    Róbert Urbán;Bernadette Kun;Judit Farkas;Borbála Paksi

  • Confirmation of the three-factor model of problematic internet use on off-line adolescent and adult samples.

    Beatrix Koronczai;Róbert Urbán;Gyöngyi Kökönyei;Borbála Paksi

  • Intense video gaming is not essentially problematic.

    Orsolya Király;Dénes Tóth;Róbert Urbán;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Psychometric properties of the problematic online gaming questionnaire short-form and prevalence of problematic online gaming in a national sample of adolescents

    Orsolya Pápay;Róbert Urbán;Mark D. Griffiths;Katalin Nagygyörgy

  • Alcohol outcome expectancies and drinking motives mediate the association between sensation seeking and alcohol use among adolescents.

    Róbert Urbán;Gyöngyi Kökönyei;Zsolt Demetrovics

  • Do gaming motives mediate between psychiatric symptoms and problematic gaming? An empirical survey study.

    Matteo Ballabio;Mark D. Griffiths;Róbert Urbán;Alessandro Quartiroli

  • Psychometric properties of the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire Short-Form (PIUQ-SF-6) in a nationally representative sample of adolescents.

    Zsolt Demetrovics;Orsolya Király;Beatrix Koronczai;Mark D. Griffiths

  • Typology and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Massively Multiplayer Online Game Players

    Katalin Nagygyörgy;Róbert Urbán;Judit Farkas;Mark D. Griffiths

  • A cross-cultural re-evaluation of the Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI) in five countries

    Mark D Griffiths;Robert Urbán;Zsolt Demetrovics;Mia B Lichtenstein

  • Ten-Item Internet Gaming Disorder Test (IGDT-10): Measurement invariance and cross-cultural validation across seven language-based samples.

    Orsolya Király;Beáta Bőthe;Jano Ramos-Diaz;Afarin Rahimi-Movaghar

  • The Bifactor Model of the Maslach Burnout Inventory–Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS)—An Alternative Measurement Model of Burnout

    V. Mészáros;V. Mészáros;Sz. Ádám;M. Szabó;R. Szigeti

  • Measuring compulsive buying behaviour: Psychometric validity of three different scales and prevalence in the general population and in shopping centres

    Aniko Maraz;Andrea Eisinger;Borbála Hende;Róbert Urbán

  • The difficulties in emotion regulation scale: factor structure in chronic pain patients.

    Gyöngyi Kökönyei;Róbert Urbán;Melinda Reinhardt;Melinda Reinhardt;Anna Józan

Frequent Co-Authors

Zsolt Demetrovics
Zsolt Demetrovics Flinders University
Gyöngyi Kökönyei
Gyöngyi Kökönyei Eötvös Loránd University
Mark D. Griffiths
Mark D. Griffiths Nottingham Trent University
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Emmanuel Kuntsche La Trobe University
Attila Szabo
Attila Szabo Eötvös Loránd University
Halley M. Pontes
Halley M. Pontes Birkbeck, University of London
Manuel Gámez-Guadix
Manuel Gámez-Guadix Autonomous University of Madrid
Valéria Csépe
Valéria Csépe Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hans-Jürgen Rumpf
Hans-Jürgen Rumpf University of Lübeck
Daria J. Kuss
Daria J. Kuss Nottingham Trent University

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