The primacy of primary control is a human universal: A reply to Gould's (1999) critique of the life-span theory of control

Psychological Review

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 605-609

  Heckhausen, Jutta ^a   Schulz, Richard ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CONTROL; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 0033160241     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.106.3.605     Document Type: Article

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