Development and Validation of the Internet Gratification Scale for Adolescents

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 361-376

  Dhir, Amandeep ^a,b   Chen, Sufen ^c   Nieminen, Marko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

adolescents; Internet; scale development; scale validation; uses and gratification (U G)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020376778     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: 15575144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282916639460     Document Type: Article

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