Do parents' collectivistic tendency and attitudes toward filial piety facilitate autonomous motivation among young Chinese adolescents?

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 701-711

  Pan, Yingqiu ^a   Gauvain, Mary ^b   Schwartz, Seth J ^c  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous motivation; Collectivism; Filial piety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887999626     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-012-9337-y     Document Type: Article

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