Students' academic motivation: Relations with parental warmth, autonomy granting, and supervision

Educational Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 521-534

  Fulton, Elizabeth ^a   Turner, Lisa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic success; Parenting; Perceptions of control

Indexed keywords

EID: 47749114178     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410701846119     Document Type: Article

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