Psychological motivation in online role-playing games: A study of Spanish World of Warcraft players;Motivación psicológica en los juegos de rol online: Un estudio de jugadores españoles del World of Warcraft

Anales de Psicologia

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 274-280

  Fuster, Héctor ^a   Oberst, Ursula ^a   Griffiths, Mark ^b   Carbonell, Xavier ^a   Chamarro, Andres ^c   Talarn, Antoni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Addiction; Instrumental study; Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs); Videogames; World of Warcraft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860908497     PISSN: 02129728     EISSN: 16952294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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