Addiktológiai problémák Magyarországon. Helyzetkép a lakossági kutatások tükrében II. Viselkedési addikciók

The National Survey on Addictive Problems in Hungary (NSAPH) 2019, which provides the primary background for the analyzes presented in the volume, is part of a series of targeted epidemiological studies that have been done for almost 20 years in Hungary. This study was aimed at examining various addiction problems and was striving for continuity as well as following international standards in terms of both methods and themes. In addition, the volume also relies on the data of the first wave of the Budapest Longitudinal Study (BLS) among young adults aged 18–34 in the capital in 2019, which thematically overlaps with the NSAPH 2019 study. The aim of the NSAPH 2019 research is twofold. On the one hand, it deals with the prevalence of different addiction problems, while on the other, it deals with methodological issues related to the assessment of these behaviours. The main objective of the research is to examine the substance use related behaviours (drug use, alcohol consumption, smoking) as well as various behavioural addictions (problematic internet use, problematic social media use, problematic mobile phone use, video game use, problematic gambling, exercise addiction, work addiction, compulsive shopping/buying behaviour) of the Hungarian adult population, to identify the patterns of the different addiction problems based on social and psychological factors, and to describe the temporal and spatial location of the addiction data of the Hungarian general population. These objectives also appear in the structure of individual chapters of the volume. The goals for the development of the applied methodology are closely related to the final aim of the research as well, aimed at epidemiological estimation. One can read about them in more detail in the chapter dealing with the methodological background of the analyses in the volume, and the results obtained in this regard are primarily found in the chapter discussing the topic of drug consumption, which is particularly difficult to investigate with traditional tools due to social attitudes. In addition, the volume examines the social attitudes related to different substances/drug-using behaviours in a separate chapter, while another chapter deals with the relationship between the different addiction problems.