Changing interests: A longitudinal study of intrinsic motivation for personally salient activities

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1119-1136

  Schwartz, Seth J ^a   Waterman, Alan S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow; Interest; Intrinsic motivation; Longitudinal study; Personal expressiveness; Self determination; Self realization values

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750829214     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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