Taken out of context? Cross-level effects of between-person self-efficacy and difficulty on the within-person relationship of self-efficacy with resource allocation and performance

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-208

  Beck, James W ^a   Schmidt, Aaron M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal difficulty; Resource allocation; Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866632927     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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