Identity formation and emotion regulation in digital gaming

Serious Games: Mechanisms and Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 204-217

  Ritterfeld, Ute ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84861962482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891650     Document Type: Chapter

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