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The Social Processes of Excessive Online Gaming Homophily: Peer Selection or Influence?

Adolescents who befriend online game using peers may be at risk for initiated and continued excessive game use (online gaming use homophily). The present article examined how adolescents' severity of online gaming use related to their friends' online gaming behavior bi-directionally across a semeste...

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Published in:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 53; no. 10; pp. 2393 - 2407
Main Authors: Li, Cuijing, Yu, Quanlei, Zhang, Jiamiao, Lv, Zhouchao, Liu, Qian, He, Jinbo
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Oct2024
Subjects:
Compulsive behavior
Social media
Peer pressure
Affinity groups
Social learning theory
Video games
Friendship
Research funding
Descriptive statistics
Surveys
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