When choice motivates and when it does not

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 429-442

  Katz, Idit ^a   Assor, Avi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Autonomy support; Motivation; Provision of choice; Psychological needs; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248882983     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-006-9027-y     Document Type: Article

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