Cross-cultural validation of the inventory of school motivation (ISM) in the asian setting: Hong Kong and the Philippines

Child Indicators Research

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-153

  King, Ronnel B ^a   Ganotice, Fraide A ^b   Watkins, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Palawan State University   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Achievement goal orientation; CFA; Construct validity; Ethnic differences; Measurement invariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862642919     PISSN: 1874897X     EISSN: 18748988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12187-011-9117-3     Document Type: Article

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