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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Serious Games

Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2025
Open Peer Review Period: Dec 15, 2025 - Feb 9, 2026
Date Accepted: Jan 7, 2026
(closed for review but you can still tweet)

The final, peer-reviewed published version of this preprint can be found here:

Longitudinal Association Between Internet Gaming Disorder and School Refusal Among Adolescents Using a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model: Three-Wave Prospective Cohort Study

Zheng P, Tao Z, Fang L, Yao T, Zhou L, Wang Y, Lin Y

Longitudinal Association Between Internet Gaming Disorder and School Refusal Among Adolescents Using a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model: Three-Wave Prospective Cohort Study

JMIR Serious Games 2026;14:e89619

DOI: 10.2196/89619

Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

Per the author's request this version is not available.