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This work was supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (grant numbers: K83884 and K111938). Gyöngyi Kökönyei and Zsolt Demetrovics acknowledge financial support of the János Bolyai Research Fellowship awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Beatrix Koronczai acknowledge financial support of the EU Science and Technology Fellowship Programme China.
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Koronczai, B., Kökönyei, G., Urbán, R. et al. Confirmation of the Chinese Version of the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire Short Form (PIUQ-SF). Int J Ment Health Addiction 15, 191–197 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-016-9664-4
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