Who gets hooked on Facebook? An exploratory typology of problematic Facebook users

Cyberpsychology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Ryan, Tracii ^a,b   Reece, John ^c   Chester, Andrea ^a   Xenos, Sophia ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Addiction; Internet; Problematic Facebook use; Social networking sites; Typologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994713349     PISSN: 18027962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5817/CP2016-3-4     Document Type: Article

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