Top-Down, Bottom-Up, and Horizontal Models: The Direction of Causality in Multidimensional, Hierarchical Self-Concept Models

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 509-527

  Marsh, Herbert W ^a   Yeung, Alexander Seeshing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0032132656     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.2.509     Document Type: Article

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