Digital game playing motives among adolescents: Relations to parent-child communication, school performance, sleeping habits, and perceived health

Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 463-474

  Wallenius, Marjut ^a   Rimpelä, Arja ^b   Punamäki, Raija Leena ^a   Lintonen, Tomi ^a,b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Digital game playing motives; Parent child communication; Perceived health; School performance; Sleeping habits

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349166140     PISSN: 01933973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appdev.2008.12.021     Document Type: Article

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