Self-entitled college students: Contributions of personality, parenting, and motivational factors

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1193-1204

  Greenberger, Ellen ^a   Lessard, Jared ^a   Chen, Chuansheng ^a   Farruggia, Susan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Academic dishonesty; Academic entitlement; Achievement anxiety; Parenting processes; Sense of entitlement; Socially comparative achievement pressure; Student teacher relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 55149100896     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-008-9284-9     Document Type: Article

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