Motives for Using Facebook, Patterns of Facebook Activities, and Late Adolescents' Social Adjustment to College

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 403-416

  Yang, Chia chen ^a   Brown, B Bradford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

College; Facebook; Internet; Loneliness; Motives; Peers; Social adjustment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873737331     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-012-9836-x     Document Type: Article

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