Validation of the new scale for measuring behaviors of Facebook users: Psycho-Social Aspects of Facebook Use (PSAFU)

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue , 2016, Pages 425-435

  Bodroža, Bojana ^a   Jovanović, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Compensation theory; Facebook; Facebook addiction; Personality; Scale; Self presentation

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL ASPECTS; SURVEYS;

BEHAVIORAL MEASURES; FACEBOOK; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TRAITS; PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESS; SCALE; SELF PRESENTATIONS; VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84940705935     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.07.032     Document Type: Article

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