Online gaming addiction: Classification, prediction and associated risk factors

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 359-371

  Hussain, Zaheer ^a   Griffiths, Mark D ^b   Baguley, Thom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; MMORPGs; Online gaming; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866277137     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2011.640442     Document Type: Article

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