Assessing Internet Addiction Using the Parsimonious Internet Addiction Components Model-A Preliminary Study

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 351-366

  Kuss, Daria J ^a   Shorter, Gillian W ^b   van Rooij, Antonius J ^c,d   Griffiths, Mark D ^e   Schoenmakers, Tim M ^c,d  

^a BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Addiction Research Institute Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction components; Behavioural addiction; Classification; Diagnosis; Internet addiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901722844     PISSN: 15571874     EISSN: 15571882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11469-013-9459-9     Document Type: Article

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