Seeing and mastering difficulty: The role of affective change in achievement flow

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1304-1328

  Baumann, Nicola ^a   Scheffer, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Flow; Implicit motives; Positive affect; PSI theory; State versus trait

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACHIEVEMENT TEST; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; OPERANT MOTIVE TEST; ORIENTATION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 78649704914     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930903319911     Document Type: Article

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