Double dose: High family conflict enhances the effect of media violence exposure on adolescents’ aggression

Societies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 280-292

  Fikkers, Karin M ^a   Piotrowski, Jessica Taylor ^a   Weeda, Wouter D ^a   Vossen, Helen G M ^a   Valkenburg, Patti M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Aggression; Family conflict; Media violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930815367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20754698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/soc3030280     Document Type: Article

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