Predictive role of personality traits on internet addiction

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1-15

  Çelik, Serkan ^a   Atak, Hasan ^a   Başal, Ahmet ^b  

^a KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Distance education; Internet addiction; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884126170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13026488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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