Gender Differences in and the Relationships Between Social Anxiety and Problematic Internet Use: Canonical Analysis

2018-01-01
Baloğlu, Mustafa
Kozan, Hatice Irem Ozteke
Kesici, Sahin
Background: The cognitive-behavioral model of problematic Internet use (PIU) proposes that psychological well-being is associated with specific thoughts and behaviors on the Internet. Hence, there is growing concern that PIU is associated with psychological impairments.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

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M. Baloğlu, H. I. O. Kozan, and S. Kesici, “Gender Differences in and the Relationships Between Social Anxiety and Problematic Internet Use: Canonical Analysis,” JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, pp. 0–0, 2018, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35613.