Self-regulated learning profiles in college students: Their relationship to achievement, personality, and the effectiveness of an intervention to foster self-regulated learning

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue , 2016, Pages 229-241

  Dörrenbächer, Laura ^a   Perels, Franziska ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential effects; Latent profile analysis; Personality; Self regulated learning; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991666609     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2016.09.015     Document Type: Article

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