Computer game addiction in adolescents and its relationship to chronotype and personality

SAGE Open

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Vollmer, Christian ^a   Randler, Christoph ^a   Horzum, Mehmet BarıŞ ^b   Ayas, Tuncay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SAKARYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Chronotype; Computer games; Game addiction; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907284597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21582440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2158244013518054     Document Type: Article

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