Internet Gaming Disorder Scale–Short-Form (IGDS9-SF) Test

For people who want to examine whether gaming is interfering with control, mood, relationships, or responsibilities, the Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short-Form (IGDS9-SF) Test offers a focused self-report profile. Its focus on internet gaming disorder symptoms highlights patterns associated with greater symptom severity, helping respondents organize their experiences and decide whether further reflection would be useful.

What This Assessment Explores

People use this questionnaire to examine whether gaming is difficult to regulate or competes with daily priorities. The IGDS9-SF questionnaire covers salience, distress during reduction, tolerance, control, lost interests, conflict, concealment, mood escape, and consequences.

These patterns describe symptoms, not a single cause. The displayed results combine two scoring views with two summaries:

• Very Often Responses (0-9) reflects “very often” answers and individual symptom severity; Low frequency 0-5, Elevated frequency 6-9, and 5 or higher may indicate the presence of internet gaming disorder according to diagnostic criteria.
• Internet Gaming Disorder (9-45) indicates overall severity under DSM-5 criteria; Low symptoms 9-21, Moderate symptoms 22-33, and High symptoms 34-45.
• Control and salience show whether gaming dominates, escalates, or repeatedly exceeds intentions.
• Consequences and coping show whether gaming relieves negative mood or is linked to conflict, concealment, lost interests, or losses.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item uses five ordered response options from Never to Very often, allowing respondents to report frequency rather than a simple yes-or-no judgment. The online scoring reports two measures: the number of Very often responses and a separate displayed severity score. Higher values on the severity score represent more severe gaming-related addictive symptoms.

The item themes are conceptually consistent with the published IGDS9-SF (Pontes & Griffiths, 2015), an internet gaming disorder scale organized around DSM-5 criteria such as preoccupation, withdrawal, tolerance, unsuccessful control, loss of interests, continued use despite problems, deception, mood regulation, and functional loss. The systematic review by Poon et al. (2021) examined the measure’s psychometric properties across studies, while Kuss and Griffiths (2012) provide broader context for gaming-related addictive behavior.

Interpret the bands as descriptive categories for the reported frequency and severity; higher values indicate more symptoms within this scoring framework. The cited psychometric evidence concerns the published instrument rather than this online administration, whose population norms and separate validation are not stated; responses may vary with memory, willingness to disclose, self-awareness, and current mood or gaming context.