Four facets of Facebook intensity — The development of the Multidimensional Facebook Intensity Scale

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 100, Issue , 2016, Pages 95-104

  Orosz, Gábor ^a,b   Tóth Király, István ^a   Bőthe, Beáta ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Research Centre for Natural Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences   (Hungary)

Author keywords

CFA; ESEM; Facebook boredom; Facebook intensity; Facebook overuse; Facebook persistence; Facebook self expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961154165     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.11.038     Document Type: Article

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