Self-handicapping: The interplay between self-set and assigned achievement goals

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 242-252

  Lovejoy, Chelsea M ^a   Durik, Amanda M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Self handicapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955925152     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-010-9179-4     Document Type: Article

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