Perceived stress, sensation seeking, and college students' abuse of the Internet

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1526-1530

  Velezmoro, Rodrigo ^a   Lacefield, Katharine ^a   Roberti, Jonathan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SARASOTA MANATEE   (United States)

Author keywords

College students; Internet abuse; Internet addiction; Internet usage patterns; Perceived stress; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE STUDENTS; INTERNET ADDICTION; INTERNET USAGE PATTERNS; PERCEIVED STRESS; SENSATION-SEEKING;

INTERNET; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77956191513     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.05.020     Document Type: Article

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