A critical consideration of social networking sites’ addiction potential

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 48-57

  Carbonell, Xavier ^a   Panova, Tayana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

addiction; behavioral addiction; Facebook; online; Social networking; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976889196     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066359.2016.1197915     Document Type: Article

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