Association between age of first exposure and heavy internet use in a representative sample of 317,443 adolescents from 52 countries.
Internet usage among adolescents has increased substantially over the last years, concurrently with emerging concerns that an abusive use is associated with detrimental health outcomes. Our objective was to examine the association between age of first exposure and heavy Internet usage in different d...
| Published in: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 395 - 404 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2023
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