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Excessive use of Twitter among college students in the UK: Validation of the Microblog Excessive Use Scale and relationship to social interaction and loneliness


Author(s) : Yamikani Ndasauka, Juan Hou, Ying Wang, Lizhuang Yang, Zhiyu Yang, Zi Ye, Yaru Hao, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Yan Kong, Xiaochu Zhang
Computers in Human Behavior
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