Self-enhancing and self-defeating ego orientation: Relations with task and avoidance orientation, achievement, self-perceptions, and anxiety

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-81

  Skaalvik, Einar M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 0031511648     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.89.1.71     Document Type: Article

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