Playing life away: Videogames and personality structure

Psychology in Russia: State of the Art

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 146-160

  do Couto, Gonçalo Leones ^a   Cruz, Andreia ^a  

^a Quintino Aires Institute   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clinical psychology; Cultural historical psychology; Personality psychology; Rorschach Personality Test; Videogames

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921022906     PISSN: 20746857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11621/pir.2014.0313     Document Type: Article

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