A catastrophe model for motivation and emotions: Highlighting the synergistic role of performance-approach and performance-avoidance goal orientations

Complex Dynamical Systems in Education: Concepts, Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 379-394

  Sideridis, Georgios ^a   Stamovlasis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Achievement goal theory; Attractor; Bifurcation; Bimodality; Catastrophe theory; Cusp catastrophe; Emotions; Goal; Hysteresis; Motivation; Orientations; Performance approach; Performance avoidance; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008939212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27577-2_17     Document Type: Chapter

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