Self in learning: Chinese adolescents' goals and sense of agency

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 482-501

  Li, Jin ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CULTURE; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33645048432     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00883.x     Document Type: Article

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