Predicting adolescents' use of social networking sites from an extended theory of planned behaviour perspective

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1591-1597

  Baker, Rosland K ^a   White, Katherine M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Group norm; Social networking sites; Theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENTS; GROUP NORM; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SUBJECTIVE NORM; THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOUR;

FORECASTING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77956183333     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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