The importance of students’ motivation for their academic achievement - replicating and extending previous findings

Achievement motivation is not a single construct but rather subsumes a variety of different constructs like ability self-concepts, task values, goals, and achievement motives. The few existing studies that investigated diverse motivational constructs as predictors of school students’ academic achiev...

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Hauptverfasser: Steinmayr, Ricarda (VerfasserIn) , Weidinger, Anne Franziska (VerfasserIn) , Schwinger, Malte (VerfasserIn) , Spinath, Birgit (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 31 July 2019
In: Frontiers in psychology
Year: 2019, Jahrgang: 10
ISSN:1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01730
Online-Zugang:Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01730
Verlag: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01730/full
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Verfasserangaben:Ricarda Steinmayr, Anne F. Weidinger, Malte Schwinger and Birgit Spinath

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