Motivations and self-presentation strategies on Korean-based "Cyworld" weblog format personal homepages

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-31

  Jung, Taejin ^a   Youn, Hyunsook ^b   McClung, Steven ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KOREA; LEISURE; MOTIVATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KOREA; MALE; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33847712634     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2006.9996     Document Type: Article

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