Being playful and smart? The relations of adult playfulness with psychometric and self-estimated intelligence and academic performance

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 463-467

  Proyer, René T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Adult playfulness; Intelligence; Psychometric intelligence; Self estimated intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959994409     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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