"it's like you're actually playing as yourself": Development and preliminary evaluation of 'Green Acres High', a serious game-based primary intervention to combat adolescent dating violence

Psychosocial Intervention

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-55

  Bowen, Erica ^a   Walker, Kate ^a   Mawer, Matthew ^a   Holdsworth, Emma ^a   Sorbring, Emma ^b   Helsing, Bo ^b   Bolin, Annette ^b   Leen, Eline ^c   Held, Paul ^c   Awouters, Valère ^d   Jans, Sebastiaan ^d  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adolescent dating violence; Primary intervention; Serious games

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904687188     PISSN: 11320559     EISSN: 21734712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5093/in2014a5     Document Type: Article

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