Longitudinal cross-gender factorial invariance of the academic motivation scale

Structural Equation Modeling

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 73-98

  Grouzet, Frederick M E ^a,b   Otis, Nancy ^a   Pelletier, Luc G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC MOTIVATIONS; ANALYTICAL STRATEGY; EDUCATIONAL LEVELS; FACTORIAL INVARIANCE; TIME SPAN;

EDUCATION; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INVARIANCE;

EID: 33644786950     PISSN: 10705511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328007sem1301_4     Document Type: Article

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