Latent mean differences in the facets of achievement motivation of undergraduate students and adult workers in the US

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1687-1697

  Woo, Sang Eun ^a   Gibbons, Alyssa Mitchell ^b   Thornton III, George C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement motivation; Adult workers; Latent mean analysis; Measurement; Undergraduate students

Indexed keywords

EID: 34648828262     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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