Approach and avoidance temperaments and achievement goals among children

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 938-943

  Bjørnebekk, Gunnar ^a   Diseth, Åge ^b  

^a University of Bergen ^*  (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Approach and avoidance temperaments

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956885796     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.07.034     Document Type: Article

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