Social gaming, lonely life? The impact of digital game play on adolescents' social circles

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue , 2014, Pages 385-390

  Kowert, Rachel ^a   Domahidi, Emese ^a   Festl, Ruth ^b   Quandt, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Online video games; Social circles; Social displacement; Video games

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ADOLESCENTS; ONLINE VIDEO; SOCIAL CIRCLES; SOCIAL DISPLACEMENT; VIDEO GAME;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84899625259     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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