It's a boy thing: The role of the internet in young people's psychological wellbeing

Behaviour Change

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 76-89

  Donchi, Lauren ^a   Moore, Susan ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; LONELINESS; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ESTEEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; WELLBEING;

EID: 9244230559     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/bech.21.2.76.55426     Document Type: Article

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