The relationship between goal orientation, social comparison responses, self-efficacy, and performance

European Psychologist

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 188-196

  Carmona, Carmen ^a   Buunk, Abraham P ^a   Dijkstra, Arie ^a   Peiro, José M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Performance; Promotion and prevention goals; Self efficacy; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249109661     PISSN: 10169040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040.13.3.188     Document Type: Article

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