Passion and motivation for studying: Predicting academic engagement and burnout in university students

Educational Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 513-528

  Stoeber, Joachim ^a   Childs, Julian H ^a   Hayward, Jennifer A ^a   Feast, Alexandra R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic engagement; Motivation; Passion; Selfconcordance theory; Student burnout

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958139999     PISSN: 01443410     EISSN: 14695820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2011.570251     Document Type: Article

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