Pathological Internet use-It is a multidimensional and not a unidimensional construct

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 166-175

  Pawlikowski, Mirko ^a   Nader, Ingo W ^b   Burger, Christoph ^b   Stieger, Stefan ^b   Brand, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Internet gaming; Internet pornography; Pathological Internet use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896774980     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2013.793313     Document Type: Article

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