Media use and dreaming: The relationship among television viewing, computer game play, and nightmares or pleasant dreams

Dreaming

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-49

  Van Bulck, Jan Den ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computer games; Media effects; Nightmares; Pleasant dreams; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645662934     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1053-0797.14.1.43     Document Type: Article

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