Game playing and adolescents' development

Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 492-507

  Durkin, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84906103866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203873700     Document Type: Chapter

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