Who looks for casual dates on the internet? A test of the compensation and the recreation hypotheses

New Media and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 455-474

  Peter, Jochen ^a   Valkenburg, Patti M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Casual dates; Dating anxiety; Internet use; Online dating; Physical self esteem; Reduced cues; Sensation seeking; Sexual permissiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248594173     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807076975     Document Type: Article

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