The three-factor model of Internet addiction: The development of the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 563-574

  Demetrovics, Zsolt ^a   Szeredi, Beatrix ^a   Rózsa, Sándor ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 48149097087     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.2.563     Document Type: Article

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