Achievement and achievement motives
Subtitle: psychological and sociological approaches
By: edited by Janet T. Spence.
Contributors: Spence, Janet T.
Series: A Series of books in psychology
Publisher: W.H. Freeman
Published: 1983
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Personality and academic achievement.; Achievement motivation.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Achievement-related motives and behaviors / Janet T. Spence and Robert L. Helmreich; title: Expectancies, values, and academic behaviors / Jacquelynne Eccles (Parsons); title: Achieving styles in men and women / Jean Lipman-Blumen, Alice Handley-Isaksen, and Harold J. Leavitt; title: Achievement and intellectual functioning of children in one-parent households / E. Mavis Hetherington, Kathleen A. Camara, and David L. Featherman; title: Social mobility through marriage and career / Nancy E. Dunton and David L. Featherman; title: The academic performance of Afro-American children / A. Wade Boykin.