Content-specific achievement motives

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 496-501

  Sparfeldt, Jörn R ^a   Rost, Detlef H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement motives; AMS; Construct validity; Fear of failure; Hope of success; School subjects

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650528776     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

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