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Publication details [#42775]
Minnebo, Jurgen. 2005. Psychological distress, perceived social support, and television viewing for reasons of companionship: A test of the compensation hypothesis in a population of crime victims. Communications 30 (2) : 233–250. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study employs a structural equation model to test the compensation hypothesis that increased television viewing for reasons of companionship, in a population of Flemish crime victims, is linked to higher levels of psychological distress and lower levels of perceived social support.