Exploring online game players' flow experiences and positive affect

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-114

  Chiang, Yu Tzu ^a   Lin, Sunny S J ^a   Cheng, Chao Yang ^a   Liu, Eric Zhi Feng ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aggression; Flow; Non violent online game; Online game play; Violent online game

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751527731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13036521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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