Heritability of proneness for psychological flow experiences

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 699-704

  Mosing, Miriam A ^a   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^a   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a   Nakamura, Jeanne ^b   Madison, Guy ^c   Ullén, Fredrik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Flow proneness; Genetic influences; Heritability; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863783915     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.05.035     Document Type: Article

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