Is the Excessive Use of Microblogs an Internet Addiction? Developing a Scale for Assessing the Excessive Use of Microblogs in Chinese College Students

• Juan Hou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Hou, Zhichao Huang, Hongxia Li

  Affiliation Department of Philosophy, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

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• Zhichao Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Hou, Zhichao Huang, Hongxia Li

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

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• Hongxia Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Hou, Zhichao Huang, Hongxia Li

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China

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• Mengqiu Liu,

  Affiliation Anhui Provincial Hospital (affiliated to Anhui Medical University), Hefei, Anhui, China, P.R. China

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• Wei Zhang,

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

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• Ning Ma,

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

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• Lizhuang Yang,

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

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• Feng Gu,

  Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

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• Ying Liu,

  Affiliation Anhui Provincial Hospital (affiliated to Anhui Medical University), Hefei, Anhui, China, P.R. China

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• Shenghua Jin,

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, P.R. China

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• Xiaochu Zhang

  * E-mail: zxcustc@ustc.edu.cn

  Affiliations CAS Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Disease, and School of Life Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P.R. China

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