Problematic social media use: Results from a large-scale nationally representative adolescent sample

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Bányai, Fanni ^a   Zsila, Ágnes ^a   Király, Orsolya ^a   Maraz, Aniko ^a   Elekes, Zsuzsanna ^b   Griffiths, Mark D ^c   Andreassen, Cecilie Schou ^d   Demetrovics, Zsolt ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems   (Hungary)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BERGEN FACEBOOK ADDICTION SCALE; BERGEN SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION SCALE; CENTER OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION-SCALE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FACEBOOK; FEMALE; GAME ADDICTION; HUMAN; INSTAGRAM; INTERNET ADDICTION; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; ROSENBERG SELF-ESTEEM SCALE; SELF ESTEEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SNAPCHAT; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUNGARY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 85009083893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169839     Document Type: Article

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