Within-person configurations and temporal relations of personal and perceived parent-promoted aspirations to school correlates among adolescents

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 895-910

  Mouratidis, Athanasios ^a   Vansteenkiste, Maarten ^b   Lens, Willy ^a,c   Michou, Aikaterini ^d   Soenens, Bart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^d BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations; Motivation; Parenting; Self determination theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881649810     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032838     Document Type: Article

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