Achievement incentives determine the effects of achievement-motive incongruence on flow experience

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-14

  Schüler, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Achievement motive; Flow experience; Incentives; Motive incongruence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949912930     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-009-9150-4     Document Type: Article

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