Explaining Paradoxical Relations Between Academic Self-Concepts and Achievements: Cross-Cultural Generalizability of the Internal/External Frame of Reference Predictions Across 26 Countries

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 56-67

  Marsh, Herbert W ^a   Hau, Kit Tai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 1642270410     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.96.1.56     Document Type: Article

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