Assessing the experience of autonomy in new cultures and contexts

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 365-376

  Roth, Guy ^a   Assor, Avi ^a   Kanat Maymon, Yaniv ^a   Kaplan, Haya ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Motivation; Smallest space analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845656873     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-006-9052-7     Document Type: Article

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