Brief approaches to assessing task absorption and enhanced subjective experience: Examining 'short' and 'core' flow in diverse performance domains

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 141-157

  Martin, Andrew J ^a   Jackson, Susan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Construct validity; Flow; Measurement; Positive psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 53549119678     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-008-9094-0     Document Type: Article

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