Task and ego orientation: The role of goal orientations in anticipated affective reactions to achievement outcomes

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-208

  Jagacinski, Carolyn M ^a   Strickland, Oriel J ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Affect; Ego involvement; Motivation; Task; Task involvement

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041781638     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1041-6080(01)00037-1     Document Type: Article

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