Measuring current achievement motivation with the QCM: Short form development and investigation of measurement invariance

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 629-634

  Freund, Philipp Alexander ^a   Kuhn, Jörg Tobias ^b   Holling, Heinz ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement motivation; Latin Square Task; Measurement invariance; Multigroup analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960390174     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.05.033     Document Type: Article

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