Precursors and underlying processes of adolescents' online self-disclosure: Developing and testing an "internet-attribute-perception" model

Media Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 292-315

  Schouten, Alexander P ^a,b   Valkenburg, Patti M ^a   Peter, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34547529325     PISSN: 15213269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15213260701375686     Document Type: Article

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