The psychometric properties of dispositional flow scale-2 in internet gaming

Current Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-201

  Wang, C K John ^a   Liu, W C ^a   Khoo, A ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; DFS 2; Dispositional flow; Invariance factorial structure; Measurement model; Multigroup analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 71349087542     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-009-9058-x     Document Type: Article

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