Satisfying needs through social networking sites: A pathway towards problematic Internet use for socially anxious people?

Addictive Behaviors Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-39

  Casale, Silvia ^a   Fioravanti, Giulia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Internet addiction; Need to belong; Self presentation; Social anxiety; Social networks addiction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSERTIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERNET ADDICTION; MALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION ANXIETY SCALE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL PHOBIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928627343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23528532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.abrep.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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