Personality-based antecedents of teachers’ autonomy-supportive and controlling motivating styles

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 62, Issue , 2018, Pages 12-22

  Reeve, Johnmarshall ^a   Jang, Hye Ryen ^a   Jang, Hyungshim ^b  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Autonomy support; Causality orientation; Personal growth initiative; Teacher control

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040359783     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2018.01.001     Document Type: Article

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