The role of different types of instrumentality in motivation, study strategies, and performances: Know why you learn, so you'll know what you learn!

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 343-360

  Simons, Joke ^a,b   Dewitte, Siegfried ^a   Lens, Willy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Department of Psychology ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MOTIVATION; NURSING STUDENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MOTIVATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 4544372153     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/0007099041552314     Document Type: Article

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