Flow Versus Life Satisfaction: A Projective Use of Cartoons to Illustrate the Difference Between the Evaluation Approach and the Intrinsic Motivation Approach to Subjective Quality of Life
Journal of Happiness StudiesPublished 1 June 2003
Joar Vittersø
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happiness, satisfaction with life, evaluation, flow, intrinsic motivation, openness to experience, projective tests, eudaemonia,
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