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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Main Authors: Ricarda Steinmayr, Anne F. Weidinger, Malte Schwinger, Birgit Spinath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01730/full