Indirect Effects of Child Reports of Teacher-Student Relationship on Achievement

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 350-365

  Hughes, Jan N ^a   Wu, Jiun Yu ^b   Kwok, Oi Man ^a   Villarreal, Victor ^a   Johnson, Audrea Y ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Academic motivation; Achievement; Elementary students; Teacher student relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874366188     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026339     Document Type: Article

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