Challenge seeking: The relationship of achievement goals to choice of task difficulty level in ego-involving and neutral conditions

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 310-322

  Jagacinski, Carolyn M ^a   Kumar, Shamala ^b   Kokkinou, Irini ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Achievement motivation; Choice of difficulty; Dynamics of action; Gender differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349142871     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-008-9103-3     Document Type: Article

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