Attributional choices for academic success and failure by intellectually gifted students

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 283-294

  Assouline, Susan G ^a   Colangelo, Nicholas ^a   Ihrig, Damien ^a   Forstadt, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 33750287780     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001698620605000402     Document Type: Article

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