Habitual computer game playing at night is related to depressive symptoms

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-122

  Lemola, Sakari ^a,b   Brand, Serge ^c   Vogler, Nicole ^a   Perkinson Gloor, Nadine ^a   Allemand, Mathias ^d   Grob, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Circadian rhythms; Computer game playing; Daytime sleepiness; Depression; Sleep duration; Sleep problems; Young adulthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955594265     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.024     Document Type: Article

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