Development of Fırat Netlessphobia Scale and investigation of its psychometric properties

Yalçın Kanbay1, Meryem Fırat2, Aysun Akçam3

  • 1Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Artvin Coruh University, Artvin, Turkey.

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