Frustrated, but not flustered: The benefits of hierarchical approach motivation to weathering daily frustrations

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 547-559

  Robinson, Michael D ^a   Moeller, Sara K ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cybernetic; Daily; Frustration; Individual differences; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903317394     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9397-2     Document Type: Article

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