Hostility among adolescents in Switzerland? Multivariate relations between excessive media use and forms of violence

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 230-236

  Kuntsche, Emmanuel N ^a,b  

^a Swiss Institute   (Switzerland)

^b Swiss Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Bullying; Gender differences; Hostile attribution bias; Media; Multivariate logistic regression; Switzerland; Television; Video games; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; FEMALE; FIGHTING; GAME; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLE; SCHOOL; SWITZERLAND; TELEVISION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 1242328967     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-139X(03)00266-0     Document Type: Article

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