A meta-analysis of the reliabilty of young’s internet addiction test

Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science

Volumn 2197, Issue , 2012, Pages 368-371

  Frangos, Constantinos C ^a   Frangos, Christos C ^b   Sotiropoulos, Ioannis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c Epirus Institute of Technology Arta   (Greece)

Author keywords

Applied statistics; Internet addiction; Meta analysis; Weighted least squares GLM

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SURVEYS;

APPLIED STATISTICS; GENERAL LINEAR MODELING; INTERNET ADDICTION; META ANALYSIS; PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USE; RELIABILITY MEASURE; SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85007520267     PISSN: 20780958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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