Predictors of learned helplessness among average and mildly gifted girls and boys attending initial high school physics instruction in Germany

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-18

  Ziegler, Albert ^a   Finsterwald, Monika ^a   Grassinger, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 11344253394     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001698620504900102     Document Type: Article

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