Boredom and academic achievement: Testing a model of reciprocal causation

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 696-710

  Pekrun, Reinhard ^a   Hall, Nathan C ^b   Goetz, Thomas ^c,d   Perry, Raymond P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^d Thurgau University of Teacher Education   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Achievement emotion; Boredom; Control value theory; Intrinsic motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894272668     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: 19392176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036006     Document Type: Article

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