Social media addiction, resistance, and influence of awareness: Measurement of psychology students' resistance to Facebook addiction

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 456-464

  Akter, Tutku ^a  

^a GIRNE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

'Mood modification' and 'tolerance'; 'Salience'; Communication technologies; Facebook addiction; Social network sites (SNS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900433856     PISSN: 20399340     EISSN: 20392117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n8p456     Document Type: Article

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