Early adolescent players' playfulness and psychological needs in online games

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 627-637

  Chiang, Yu Tzu ^a   Lin, Sunny S S J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Motivation; Online games; Playfulness; Psychological needs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953415570     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2010.38.5.627     Document Type: Article

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