Addictive Potential of Internet Applications and Differential Correlates of Problematic Use in Internet Gamers versus Generalized Internet Users in a Representative Sample of Adolescents | Zendy

Tabea Rosenkranz | Zendy; Kai W. Müller | Zendy; Michael Dreier | Zendy; Manfred E. Beutel | Zendy; Klaus Wölfling | Zendy

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Addictive Potential of Internet Applications and Differential Correlates of Problematic Use in Internet Gamers versus Generalized Internet Users in a Representative Sample of Adolescents

Author(s) -

Tabea Rosenkranz,

Kai W. Müller,

Michael Dreier,

Manfred E. Beutel,

Klaus Wölfling

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

european addiction research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.862

H-Index - 54

eISSN - 1421-9891

pISSN - 1022-6877

DOI - 10.1159/000475984

Subject(s) - the internet , psychology , addiction , psychosocial , conscientiousness , dysfunctional family , extraversion and introversion , clinical psychology , coping (psychology) , personality , big five personality traits , psychiatry , social psychology , world wide web , computer science

This paper examines the addictive potential of 8 different Internet applications, distinguishing male and female users. Moreover, differential correlates of problematic use are investigated in Internet gamers (IG) and generalized Internet users (GIU).

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