Internet addiction and personality in first-person-shooter video gamers

Journal of Media Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 163-173

  Montag, Christian ^a   Flierl, Matthias ^b   Markett, Sebastian ^a   Walter, Nora ^a   Jurkiewicz, Magdalena ^c   Reuter, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

first person shooter video games; Internet addiction; personality; self directedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858644378     PISSN: 18641105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000049     Document Type: Article

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