Unravelling the web: Adolescents and internet addiction

Adolescent Online Social Communication and Behavior: Relationship Formation on the Internet

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 29-49

  Widyanto, Laura ^a   Griffiths, Mark ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956527647     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-926-7.ch003     Document Type: Chapter

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