Playing Violent Video and Computer Games and Adolescent Self-Concept

Journal of Communication

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 19-32

  Funk, Jeanne B ^a   Buchman, Debra D ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0030526142     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01472.x     Document Type: Article

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