"I deserve success": Academic entitlement attitudes and their relationships with course self-efficacy, social networking, and demographic variables

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 353-365

  Boswell, Stefanie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic entitlement; Generational status; Self efficacy; Social networking; Student attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865599413     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-012-9184-4     Document Type: Article

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