Achievement motivation revisited: New longitudinal data to demonstrate its predictive power

Educational Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 561-582

  Hustinx, Paul W J ^a   Kuyper, Hans ^b   van der Werf, Margaretha P C ^b   Dijkstra, Pieternel ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Academic performance; Adolescent; Motivation; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949263958     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410903132128     Document Type: Article

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