Problematic Social Media Use and Psychological Distress: A Symptom-Focused Network Analysis.
The relationship between problematic social media use (PSMU) and psychological distress has been widely investigated and confirmed. However, little is known about the connections between the specific symptoms of these variables within a comorbidity network. The present study aimed to establish a net...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 2153 - 2171 |
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