Positive Classroom Motivational Environments: Convergence Between Mastery Goal Structure and Classroom Social Climate

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-382

  Patrick, Helen ^a   Kaplan, Avi ^b   Ryan, Allison M ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom climate; Classroom environment; Goal theory; Mastery goal structure; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957820508     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023311     Document Type: Article

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