Failure-avoidance: Parenting, the achievement environment of the home and strategies for reduction

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-26

  Thompson, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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EID: 1342332124     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2003.10.005     Document Type: Article

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