Examination performance: Are student's causal attributions school-subject specific?

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 331-342

  Boekaerts, Monique ^a   Otten, Roelie ^b   Voeten, Rinus ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causal attribution; Effort; School examination; School subject

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141567814     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1061580031000095470     Document Type: Review

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