The Structure of Academic Self-Concepts Revisited: The Nested Marsh/Shavelson Model

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 964-981

  Brunner, Martin ^a   Keller, Ulrich ^a   Dierendonck, Christophe ^a   Reichert, Monique ^a   Ugen, Sonja ^a   Fischbach, Antoine ^a   Martin, Romain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Academic self concepts; Confirmatory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649716743     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019644     Document Type: Article

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