Academic Help-Seeking: Achievement Goal Orientations and Perceptions of Competence

Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-153

  Nosaki, Hidemasa ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Academic help seeking; Achievement goal orientations; Attitudes toward help seeking; Junior high school students; Perceptions of competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141755118     PISSN: 00215015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5926/jjep1953.51.2_141     Document Type: Article

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