The Relationships Among Students' Future-Oriented Goals and Subgoals, Perceived Task Instrumentality, and Task-Oriented Self-Regulation Strategies in an Academic Environment

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 629-642

  Tabachnick, Sharon E ^a   Miller, Raymond B ^b   Relyea, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

future and proximal goals; intrinsic and extrinsic goals; perceived task instrumentality; self determination theory; social cognitive theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849124164     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.100.3.629     Document Type: Article

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