The development of the Game Engagement Questionnaire: A measure of engagement in video game-playing

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 624-634

  Brockmyer, Jeanne H ^a   Fox, Christine M ^a   Curtiss, Kathleen A ^a   McBroom, Evan ^a   Burkhart, Kimberly M ^a   Pidruzny, Jacquelyn N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow; Immersion; Measurement; Presence; Psychological absorption; Psychological engagement; Rasch; Video games; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651015209     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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