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Yasser Khazaal is affiliated with the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans psychology and social sciences, with a significant focus on clinical psychology, sociology and political science, general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's research topics include the impact of technology on adolescents, sexuality, behavior, and technology, digital mental health interventions, mental health research topics, gambling behavior and treatments, health, medicine and society, as well as COVID-19 and mental health.

Yasser Khazaal has published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Revue Médicale Suisse
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • JMIR Formative Research
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Main co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Yasser Khazaal include:

  • Germano Vera Cruz
  • Lucien Rochat
  • Joël Billieux
  • Louise Penzenstadler
  • Daniele Zullino

Significant papers authored by Yasser Khazaal and their colleagues feature:

  • Compulsive Health-Related Internet Use and Cyberchondria, 2020, European Addiction Research
  • Mobile Apps for Mental Health Issues: Meta-Review of Meta-Analyses, 2020, JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • Multidimensional Assessment of COVID-19-Related Fears (MAC-RF): A Theory-Based Instrument for the Assessment of Clinically Relevant Fears During Pandemics, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Positive and negative urgency as a single coherent construct: Evidence from a large-scale network analysis in clinical and non-clinical samples, 2021, Journal of Personality
  • Unveiling the relationships between cyberchondria and psychopathological symptoms, 2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research

Best Publications

  • Are we overpathologizing everyday life? A tenable blueprint for behavioral addiction research

    Joël Billieux;Adriano Schimmenti;Yasser Khazaal;Pierre Maurage

  • How can we conceptualize behavioural addiction without pathologizing common behaviours

    Daniel Kardefelt-Winther;Alexandre Heeren;Adriano Schimmenti;Antonius J. van Rooij

  • Why do you play World of Warcraft? An in-depth exploration of self-reported motivations to play online and in-game behaviours in the virtual world of Azeroth

    JoëL Billieux;Martial Van Der Linden;Sophia Achab;Yasser Khazaal

  • French validation of the internet addiction test.

    Yasser Khazaal;Joël Billieux;Gabriel Thorens;Riaz Khan

  • Validation of a short French version of the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale.

    Joël Billieux;Joël Billieux;Lucien Rochat;Grazia Ceschi;Arnaud Carré

  • Mobile Apps for Mental Health Issues: Meta-Review of Meta-Analyses

    Tania Lecomte;Stéphane Potvin;Marc Corbière;Stéphane Guay

  • Problematic involvement in online games

    Joël Billieux;Gabriel Thorens;Yasser Khazaal;Daniele Zullino

  • Does Self-Selection Affect Samples’ Representativeness in Online Surveys? An Investigation in Online Video Game Research

    Yasser Khazaal;Mathias Van Singer;Anne Chatton;Sophia Achab

  • Motivations to play specifically predict excessive involvement in massively multiplayer online role-playing games : evidence from an online survey

    Francesca Zanetta Dauriat;Ariane Zermatten;Joel Billieux;Gabriel Thorens

  • Maximizing the Impact of e-Therapy and Serious Gaming: Time for a Paradigm Shift

    Theresa M. Fleming;Derek de Beurs;Yasser Khazaal;Andrea Gaggioli

  • Psychological predictors of problematic involvement in massively multiplayer online role-playing games: illustration in a sample of male cybercafé players.

    Joel Billieux;Julien Chanal;Yasser Khazaal;Lucien Rochat

  • Gender Difference in Internet Use and Internet Problems among Quebec High School Students.

    Magali Dufour;Natacha Brunelle;Joel Tremblay;Danielle Leclerc

  • Brief DISCERN, six questions for the evaluation of evidence-based content of health-related websites.

    Yasser Khazaal;Anne Chatton;Sophie Cochand;Olivier Coquard

  • Relationships between Behavioural Addictions and Psychiatric Disorders: What Is Known and What Is Yet to Be Learned?

    Vladan Starcevic;Yasser Khazaal;Yasser Khazaal

  • Cyberchondria and its Relationships with Related Constructs: a Network Analysis.

    Vladan Starcevic;Vladan Starcevic;Stéphanie Baggio;Stéphanie Baggio;David Berle;David Berle;Yasser Khazaal

  • Trait gambling cognitions predict near-miss experiences and persistence in laboratory slot machine gambling.

    Joel Billieux;Joel Billieux;Martial Van der Linden;Martial Van der Linden;Yasser Khazaal;Daniele Fabio Zullino

  • Khat use: lifestyle or addiction?

    Rita Annoni Manghi;Barbara Broers;Riaz Khan;Djamel Benguettat

  • Anticonvulsant drugs in the treatment of substance withdrawal.

    Daniele Fabio Zullino;Yasser Khazaal;Josef Hättenschwiler;François Borgeat

  • Internet Use by Patients with Psychiatric Disorders in Search for General and Medical Informations

    Yasser Khazaal;Anne Chatton;Sophie Cochand;Aliosca Hoch

  • Systematic Review of Food Addiction as Measured with the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for the Food Addiction Construct.

    Louise Penzenstadler;Carina Soares;Laurent Karila;Yasser Khazaal

  • Cognitive behavioural therapy for weight gain associated with antipsychotic drugs

    Yasser Khazaal;Emmanuelle Fresard;Sophie Rabia;Anne Chatton

  • Characteristics and treatment response of self-identified problematic Internet users in a behavioral addiction outpatient clinic

    Gabriel Thorens;Sophia Achab;Joel Billieux;Yasser Khazaal

Frequent Co-Authors

Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux University of Lausanne
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva
Vladan Starcevic
Vladan Starcevic University of Sydney
Pierre Maurage
Pierre Maurage Université Catholique de Louvain
Adriano Schimmenti
Adriano Schimmenti Università degli Studi di Enna Kore
David Berle
David Berle Australian National University
Alexandre Heeren
Alexandre Heeren Université Catholique de Louvain
Alex Blaszczynski
Alex Blaszczynski University of Sydney
Tania Lecomte
Tania Lecomte University of Montreal
Henri-Jean Aubin
Henri-Jean Aubin University of Paris-Saclay

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