Unforgiving Confucian culture: A breeding ground for high academic achievement, test anxiety and self-doubt?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 555-563

  Stankov, Lazar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Anxiety; Confucian culture; Self doubt; Unforgiving

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149499244     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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