Assignment choice, effort, and assignment completion: Does work ethic predict those who choose higher-effort assignments?

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 575-579

  Parkhurst, John T ^a   Fleisher, Matthew S ^b   Skinner, Christopher H ^b   Woehr, David J ^b   Hawthorn Embree, Meredith L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Assignment choice; Effort; Leisure; Partial assignment completion effect; Work ethic

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052405308     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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