Effectance, self-efficacy, and the motivation to play video games

Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 153-168

  Klimmt, Christoph ^a   Hartmann, Tilo ^a  

^a Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

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EID: 84906103428     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203873700     Document Type: Chapter

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