Self-esteem, personality and Internet Addiction: A cross-cultural comparison study

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 61-62, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-33

  Sariyska, Rayna ^a   Reuter, Martin ^a   Bey, Katharina ^a   Sha, Peng ^a   Li, Mei ^b   Chen, Ya Fei ^b   Liu, Wei Yin ^c   Zhu, Yi Kang ^d   Li, Chun Bo ^d   Suárez Rivillas, Alejandro ^a   Feldmann, Mieke ^a   Hellmann, Marie ^a   Keiper, Julia ^a   Markett, Sebastian ^a   Young, Kimberly S ^e   Montag, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit and explicit self esteem; Internet Addiction; Personality; Self directedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896548630     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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