The role of loneliness in university students’ pathological Internet use – a web survey study on the moderating effect of social web application use - University of Regensburg Publication Server

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-510016
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.51001

Reissmann, Andreas

; Lange, Klaus W.

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Abstract

The present study investigated the role of social web application use in the association between loneliness and pathological Internet use. A sample of university students (n = 445) completed an online survey of their loneliness and Internet use, including an assessment of pathological Internet use level. Based on existing theory and empirical findings, loneliness was expected to be indirectly ...