Affect and motivation within and between school subjects: Development and validation of an integrative structural model of academic self-concept, interest, and anxiety

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2017, Pages 46-65

  Gogol, Katarzyna ^a,b   Brunner, Martin ^a,c   Martin, Romain ^b   Preckel, Franzis ^d   Goetz, Thomas ^e,f  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c Berlin Brandenburg Institute for School Quality Improvement   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^f Thurgau University of Teacher Education   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Academic anxiety; Academic interest; Academic self concept; Nested factor model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006337121     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.11.003     Document Type: Article

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