Coping or escaping?: Effects of life dissatisfaction on selective exposure

Communication Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 207-228

  Knobloch Westerwick, Silvia ^a   Hastall, Matthias R ^b   Rossmann, Maik ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coping; Escapism; Life satisfaction; Selective exposure

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849085701     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650208330252     Document Type: Article

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