Internet addiction is associated with social anxiety in young adults

Annals of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 4-9

  Weinstein, Aviv ^a   Dorani, Dikla ^a   Elhadif, Rotem ^a   Bukovza, Yehely ^a   Yarmulnik, Anastasya ^a   Dannon, Pinhas ^b  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INTERNET ADDICTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PHOBIA; YOUNG ADULT; ADDICTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; COMPLICATION; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925248525     PISSN: 10401237     EISSN: 15473325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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