Students' achievement goal orientations and their behavioral and emotional engagement: Co-examining the role of perceived school goal structures and parent goals during adolescence

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-60

  Gonida, Eleftheria N ^a   Voulala, Katerina ^a   Kiosseoglou, Grigoris ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Achievement goal orientations; Behavioral engagement; Emotional engagement; Perceived parent goals; Perceived school goal structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951969515     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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