Fighting the war on indecency: Mediating tv, internet, and videogame usage among achieving and underachieving gifted children

Roeper Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-112

  Abelman, Robert ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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