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“Thumb Exercise”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Psychosocial Factors Encouraging Inactive Adults to Engage with Their Smartphones Rather than Physical Activity Cover

“Thumb Exercise”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Psychosocial Factors Encouraging Inactive Adults to Engage with Their Smartphones Rather than Physical Activity

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|Apr 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/paah.50 | Journal eISSN: 2515-2270
Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 27, 2020
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Accepted on: Mar 7, 2020
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Published on: Apr 9, 2020
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