The Pivotal Role of Effort Beliefs in Mediating Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Achievement Goals and Academic Motivations

Social Psychology of Education

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 101-120

  Tempelaar, Dirk T ^a   Rienties, Bart ^b   Giesbers, Bas ^c   Gijselaers, Wim H ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic motivations; Achievement goals; Effort beliefs; Implicit theories; Self theories; Structural equation model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027941338     PISSN: 13812890     EISSN: 15731928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11218-014-9281-7     Document Type: Article

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