Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Teacher Autonomy Support and Amotivation in Physical Education

Sex Roles

Volumn 72, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 163-172

  Shen, Bo ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ability beliefs; Amotivation dimensions; Appealing task characteristics; Effort beliefs; Task values

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925538750     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-015-0448-2     Document Type: Article

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