The relationship between academic self-concept and achievement: A multicohort-multioccasion study

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 172-178

  Chen, Ssu Kuang ^a   Yeh, Yu Chen ^a   Hwang, Fang Ming ^b   Lin, Sunny S J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Achievement; Adolescence; Development; Self concept; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871919052     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.07.021     Document Type: Article

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