Motivation for agreement with parental values: Desirable when autonomous, problematic when controlled

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 232-245

  Knafo, Ariel ^a   Assor, Avi ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autonomy support; Internalization; Motivation; Parenting; Socialization; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848895143     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-007-9067-8     Document Type: Article

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