Does motivation affect performance via persistence?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 293-309

  Vollmeyer, Regina ^a   Rheinberg, Falko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning; Motivation; Persistence; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034239433     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(99)00031-6     Document Type: Article

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