Relations between media use and self-reported symptomatology in young adolescents

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 333-341

  Lohaus, Arnold ^a   Ball, Juliane ^a   Klein Hessling, Johannes ^b   Wild, Martin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Coping; Gender differences; Media use; Stress symptomatology

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244439826     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800500258123     Document Type: Review

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