Adolescents Online: The Importance of Internet Activity Choices to Salient Relationships

By Julie Blais, Wendy Craig, Debra Pepler, J. Connolly. 2008

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Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Online game addiction among adolescents: motivation and prevention factors (2012, background): “…2009; Golub, 2010; Lin, 2010), and that many online game players engage in this activity to escape reality (Hussain & Griffiths, 2009), socialize (Blais et al, 2008), to serve a need to excel, at least in the virtual world, as a potential alternative to deficiencies in some aspects of the real…”
• Relational consequences of compulsive Internet use: a longitudinal study among newlyweds (2011, unknown): “For example, in a longitudinal study, Blais, Craig, Pepler, and Connolly (2008) followed adolescents over the course of 1 year and found that using the Internet for entertainment negatively affected the quality of both romantic and best-friend relationships over time.”