Teachers' professional goal orientations: Importance for further training and sick leave

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 272-278

  Nitsche, Sebastian ^a   Dickhäuser, Oliver ^a   Fasching, Michaela S ^b   Dresel, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Further training; Goal orientation; Perceived occupational strain; Sick leave; Teacher

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871927578     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.07.017     Document Type: Article

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