The role of personality and motivation in predicting early college academic success in non-traditional students at a Hispanic-serving institution

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 492-496

  Kaufman, James C ^a   Agars, Mark D ^a   Lopez Wagner, Muriel C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

College; Hispanic; Motivation; Non cognitive; Personality; School achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749096412     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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