Relations between teacher students' approaches to learning, cognitive and attributional strategies, well-being, and study success

Higher Education

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 455-471

  Heikkilä, Annamari ^a   Lonka, Kirsti ^a   Nieminen, Juha ^a   Niemivirta, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Approaches to learning; Cognitive and attributional strategies; Higher education; Teacher education; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866130744     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9504-9     Document Type: Article

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