Text or talk? Social anxiety, loneliness, and divergent preferences for cell phone use

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 424-435

  Reid, Donna J ^a   Reid, Fraser J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERALIZED PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INTERNET; INTIMACY; LONELINESS; MALE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIUM; MOBILE PHONE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STATUS; VOICE CALL;

ADULT; CELLULAR PHONE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; LONELINESS; MALE; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34347270594     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2006.9936     Document Type: Article

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