Assisting failure-prone individuals to navigate achievement transitions using a cognitive motivation treatment (attributional retraining)

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1946-1955

  Boese, Gregory D B ^a,b   Stewart, Tara L ^a,c   Perry, Raymond P ^a   Hamm, Jeremy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84886946414     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12139     Document Type: Article

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