The beliefs that underlie autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching: A multinational investigation

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-110

  Reeve, Johnmarshall ^a   Vansteenkiste, Maarten ^b   Assor, Avi ^c   Ahmad, Ikhlas ^d   Cheon, Sung Hyeon ^a   Jang, Hyungshim ^e   Kaplan, Haya ^f   Moss, Jennifer D ^g   Olaussen, Bodil Stokke ^h   Wang, C K John ⁱ  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^e Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^f KAYE ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF EDUCATION   (Israel)

^g PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

ⁱ NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Antecedents of motivating style; Autonomy support; Collectivism; Motivating style; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895903043     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-013-9367-0     Document Type: Article

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