Prevalence and correlates of excessive internet use among youth in Singapore

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-14

  Mythily, Subramaniam ^a   Qiu, Shijia ^a   Winslow, Munidasa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Addiction; Adolescents; Internet; Survey

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 41149137339     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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