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Confirmation of the Chinese Version of the Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire Short Form (PIUQ-SF)

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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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  1. Department of Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

    Beatrix Koronczai

  2. Department of Clinical Psychology and Addiction, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Izabella utca 46, Budapest, H-1064, Hungary

    Gyöngyi Kökönyei, Orsolya Király, Katalin Felvinczi & Zsolt Demetrovics

  3. Department of Personality and Health Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

    Róbert Urbán

  4. Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

    Katalin Nagygyörgy

  5. Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Mark D. Griffiths

  6. Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zheng Huang

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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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