Gender effects on mathematics achievement: Mediating role of state and trait self-regulation

Gender Differences in Mathematics: An Integrative Psychological Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 264-293

  Hong, Eunsook ^a   O’Neil, Harold F ^b   Feldon, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511614446.014     Document Type: Chapter

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