Goal orientations and strong oughts: Adaptive or maladaptive forms of motivation for students with and without suspected learning disabilities?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-77

  Sideridis, Georgios D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Achievement goal theory; Goal orientations; Learning disabilities; Obligations; Ought self

Indexed keywords

EID: 33144464514     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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