Mediating relationships between academic motivation, academic integration and academic performance

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 33, Issue , 2014, Pages 30-38

  Clark, M H ^a   Middleton, Steven C ^b   Nguyen, Daniel ^b   Zwick, Lauren K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic integration; Academic motivation; Academic performance; Bootstrap mediation; First year college students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901852260     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.04.007     Document Type: Article

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