How basic need satisfaction and dispositional motives interact in predicting flow experience in sport

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 687-705

  Schüler, Julia ^a   Brandstätter, Veronika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84876323234     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2013.01045.x     Document Type: Article

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