Shaping achievement goal orientations in a mastery-structured environment and concomitant changes in related contingencies of self-worth

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-64

  O'Keefe, Paul A ^a,b   Ben Eliyahu, Adar ^a,c   Linnenbrink Garcia, Lisa ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Achievement motivation; Classroom context; Contingencies of self worth; Goal orientations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874322214     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9293-6     Document Type: Article

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