The quality of online, offline, and mixed-mode friendships among users of a social networking site

Cyberpsychology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 6-

  Antheunis, Marjolijn L ^a   Valkenburg, Patti M ^b   Peter, Jochen ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Proximity; Quality of friendship; Similarity; Social attraction; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871899726     PISSN: 18027962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5817/CP2012-3-6     Document Type: Article

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