Video game playing and gambling in adolescents: Common risk factors

Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-100

  Wood, Richard T A ^a   Gupta, Rina ^a   Derevensky, Jeffrey L ^a   Griffiths, Mark ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping strategies; Internet; Risk factors; Video game playing; Youth gambling

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044248753     PISSN: 1067828X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J029v14n01_05     Document Type: Review

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