Psychosocial causes and consequences of online video game play

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue , 2015, Pages 51-58

  Kowert, Rachel ^a   Vogelgesang, Jens ^a   Festl, Ruth ^b   Quandt, Thorsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Online gaming; Psychosocial; Social compensation; Social displacement

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISKS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERNET;

INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; LONGITUDINAL DESIGNS; ON-LINE GAMING; PSYCHOSOCIAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL WELL-BEING; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; SOCIAL COMPENSATIONS; SOCIAL DISPLACEMENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84921341818     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.11.074     Document Type: Article

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