Uses of the Internet and their relationships with individual differences in personality

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-70

  Hills, Peter ^a   Argyle, Michael ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COGNITIVE ASPECTS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 0037212245     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0747-5632(02)00016-X     Document Type: Article

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