Integrating Desire Thinking into the I-PACE Model: a Special Focus on Internet-Use Disorders

AbstractPurpose of ReviewThis manuscript aims to propose an integration of desire thinking into the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model based on theoretical considerations within the Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Desire and Self-Regulatory Execution Function model and empirical evidence from the field of internet-use disorders.Recent FindingsTheory and research on desire thinking in the context of internet-use disorders suggest considerable relations to craving, metacognitive beliefs, and emphasizes its nature when initiated as a reaction towards unpleasant triggers. Accordingly, we postulate that desire thinking may be located at the position for affective and cognitive reactions towards triggers within the I-PACE model.SummaryThe suggested integration of desire thinking into the I-PACE model specifically implies the assumption of arelief-oriented andpleasure-oriented entry pathway into desire thinking and a feedback loop between desire thinking and the experience of gratification and compensation. The model pathways proposed here may serve as a theoretical basis for future research and need further empirical verification.

Source: Current Addiction Reports - October 11, 2021 Category: Addiction Source Type: research