Cortisol reactivity to a teacher's motivating style: The biology of being controlled versus supporting autonomy

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-74

  Reeve, Johnmarshall ^a   Tseng, Ching Mei ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy support; Controlling; Cortisol; Motivating style

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952107863     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-011-9204-2     Document Type: Article

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