Does well-being contribute to performance? Emotional security, teacher support and learning behaviour in Kindergarten

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-275

  Koomen, Helma M Y ^a   Van Leeuwen, Mirella G P ^a   Van Der Leij, Aryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotional security; Inhibition; Kindergarten; Learning; Task involvement; Teacher child interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244245048     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.352     Document Type: Article

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