Association Between Proactive Personality and Academic Self–Efficacy

Current Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 600-609

  Lin, Shin Huei ^a   Lu, Wan Chen ^b   Chen, Mei Yen ^a   Chen, Lung Hung ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAOYUAN INNOVATION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN SPORT UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Academic self efficacy; Education; Proactive personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939891212     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-014-9231-8     Document Type: Article

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