Effects of Failure on Subsequent Performance: The Importance of Self-Defining Goals

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 395-407

  Brunstein, Joachim C ^a   Gollwitzer, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STUDENT;

ADULT; ASPIRATIONS (PSYCHOLOGY); CAREER CHOICE; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 0030076618     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.2.395     Document Type: Article

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