Internet use for offline and online network capital and well-being. A causal model approach

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 189-210

  Vergeer, Maurice ^a   Pelzer, Ben ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Loneliness; Offline communication; Online communication; Social capital; Social support; Structural Equations Modeling; Time displacement

Indexed keywords

LONELINESS; OFFLINE; OFFLINE COMMUNICATION; OFFLINE NETWORKS; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION; ON-LINE NETWORK; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS; TIME DISPLACEMENTS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 70450192704     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01499.x     Document Type: Article

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