On social achievement goals: Their relations with peer acceptance, classroom belongingness, and perceptions of loneliness

Journal of Experimental Education

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 285-308

  Mouratidis, Athanasios ^a   Sideridis, Georgios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Elementary school students; Emotional adjustment; Peer acceptance; Social

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649610018     PISSN: 00220973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JEXE.77.3.285-308     Document Type: Article

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