Emotions in medical education: Examining the validity of the Medical Emotion Scale (MES) across authentic medical learning environments

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 70, Issue , 2020, Pages

  Duffy, Melissa C ^a   Lajoie, Susanne P ^b   Pekrun, Reinhard ^c,d   Lachapelle, Kevin ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Achievement emotions; Control value theory; Emotion measurement; Medical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053930986     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.07.001     Document Type: Article

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