Linking Students' Emotions and Academic Achievement: When and Why Emotions Matter

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 129-135

  Valiente, Carlos ^a   Swanson, Jodi ^a   Eisenberg, Nancy ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Effortful control; Emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861002726     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00192.x     Document Type: Review

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