Macho-man in school: Toward the role of gender role self-concepts and help seeking in school performance

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 234-240

  Kessels, Ursula ^a   Steinmayr, Ricarda ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic help seeking; Gender gap in school performance; Gender role self concept

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871919547     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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