Self-Regulation and School Performance: Is There Optimal Level of Action-Control?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-74

  Lopez, David F ^b   Little, Todd D ^a,c   Oettingen, Gabriele ^a   Baltes, Paul B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDENT;

ACHIEVEMENT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS; VOLITION;

EID: 0032110944     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1998.2446     Document Type: Article

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