Goal orientations predict academic performance beyond intelligence and personality

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 196-200

  Steinmayr, Ricarda ^a   Bipp, Tanja ^b   Spinath, Birgit ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Big Five; Goal orientations; Intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952100207     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.11.026     Document Type: Article

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