Adults' learning motivation: Expectancy of success, value, and the role of affective memories

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 610-617

  Gorges, Julia ^a   Kandler, Christian ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adult learning; Affective memories; Expectancy value; Internationalization; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865354688     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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