Problematic involvement in online games: A cluster analytic approach
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.10.055 0747-5632/ 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Catholic University of Louvain, 10, Place du Cardinal Mercier, 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium. Tel.: +32 10 47 46 38; fax: +32 10 47 48 34. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Billieux). Joël Billieux a,b,c,⇑, Gabriel Thorens , Yasser Khazaal , Daniele Zullino , Sophia Achab , Martial Van der Linden b,e
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Computers in Human Behavior
دوره 43 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015