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2 - Expectancies, Values, Identities, and Self-Regulation

from Part I - Concepts and Processes of Self-Regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2015

By
Jacquelynne S. Eccles ,
Jennifer A. Fredricks  and
Pieter Baay
Edited by
Gabriele Oettingen  and
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Gabriele Oettingen
Affiliation:
New York University
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Affiliation:
New York University
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Author Note

Jacquelynne Eccles, School of Education, University of California, Irvine; Jennifer A. Fredricks, Department of Human Development and the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, Connecticut College; Pieter Baay, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University, NL

Correspondence concerning this chapter should be addressed to Jacquelynne S. Eccles, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, E-mail: [email protected]

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Self-Regulation in Adolescence , pp. 30 - 56
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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