Seeking flow in the achievement domain: The achievement flow motive behind flow experience

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 267-284

  Baumann, Nicola ^a   Scheffer, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b Nordakademie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Autotelic personality; Flow; Implicit motives; Operant motive test (OMT); Personality systems interaction theory (PSI Theory); Self determination; State versus trait; Work efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052507802     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-010-9195-4     Document Type: Article

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