Addiction to mobile text messaging applications is nothing to "lol" about

Social Science Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-69

  Sultan, Abdullah J ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Addiction; Extraversion; Social communication; Social phobia and anxiety; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893662936     PISSN: 03623319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2013.09.003     Document Type: Article

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