Too much time online: Internet addiction or healthy social interactions?

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 395-401

  Grohol, John M ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERNET ADDICTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORY;

EID: 0033394387     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.1999.2.395     Document Type: Article

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