The impact of motivation and teachers' autonomy support on children's executive functions

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Sosic Vasic, Zrinka ^a   Keis, Oliver ^b   Lau, Maren ^b   Spitzer, Manfred ^a,b   Streb, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Executive functions; Motivation; School; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926476148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00146     Document Type: Article

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