The Compulsive Internet Use Scale (CIUS): Some psychometric properties

Cyberpsychology and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Meerkerk, G J ^a   Van Den Eijnden, R J J M ^a,b   Vermulst, A A ^c   Garretsen, H F L ^d  

^a Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CHILD; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60049087802     PISSN: 10949313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2008.0181     Document Type: Article

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