A longitudinal analysis of gender differences in academic self-concept and language achievement: A multivariate multilevel latent growth approach

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 132-150

  Fraine, Bieke De ^a   Damme, Jan Van ^a   Onghena, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Academic self concept; Gender; Multilevel analysis; Multivariate latent growth analysis; Reciprocal effects model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846495551     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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