Canadian and Chinese university students' approaches to coping with academic boredom

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-43

  Tze, Virginia M C ^a   Daniels, Lia M ^a   Klassen, Robert M ^a,b   Li, Johnson C H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Achievement; Boredom coping; Cross cultural; Profiles; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871922947     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.10.015     Document Type: Article

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