Predicting adolescent Internet addiction: The roles of demographics, technology accessibility, unwillingness to communicate and sought Internet gratifications

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 24-33

  Dhir, Amandeep ^a,b   Chen, Sufen ^c   Nieminen, Marko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cross sectional survey; Internet addiction; Internet U Gs; Unwillingness to communicate

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION USE; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ADOLESCENTS; ATTITUDES TOWARDS INTERNETS; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEYS; INTERNET ADDICTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS; UNWILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE;

INTERNET;

EID: 84929598531     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.04.056     Document Type: Article

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