Antecedents and consequences of students' achievement goals: A mediation analysis

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 28, Issue , 2013, Pages 90-101

  Dinger, Felix C ^a   Dickhäuser, Oliver ^a   Spinath, Birgit ^b   Steinmayr, Ricarda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Implicit theory of intelligence; Mediation; Need for achievement; Perceived competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885803525     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.09.005     Document Type: Article

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