Relationship between gambling and video-game playing: A response to Johansson and Gotestam

Psychological Reports

Volumn 96, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 644-646

  Griffiths, Mark ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDER; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; RECREATION; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

GAMBLING; HUMANS; IMPULSE CONTROL DISORDERS; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 22944468490     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PR0.96.3.644-646     Document Type: Review

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