Sex differences in adults' motivation to achieve

Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 433-446

  van der Sluis, Sophie ^a   Vinkhuyzen, Anna A E ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Posthuma, Danielle ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Achievement; Motivation; Multi group covariance and mean structure analysis; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954035061     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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