Surfing: An avenue for socially acceptable risk-taking, satisfying needs for sensation seeking and experience seeking

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 663-677

  Diehm, Rebekah ^a   Armatas, Christine ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Experience seeking; Intrinsic motivation; Openness to Experience; Risk taking; Sensation seeking; Surfing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347022333     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00124-7     Document Type: Article

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