The effects of social-comparison versus mastery praise on children's intrinsic motivation

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-345

  Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong ^a   Ogle, Christin M ^b   Love Geiger, Kelly E ^a  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Intrinsic motivation; Mastery; Praise; Social Comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845628975     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-006-9039-4     Document Type: Article

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