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Pleasure Derived from Mastery in Three-Year Olds: Its Function for Persistence and the Influence of Maternal Behavior.
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Lutkenhaus, Paul – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1984
Explores, in two independent replications one year apart, the possiblility that (a) the actions of three-year-old children are guided and accompanied by self-evaluations and withdrawal, (b) that self-evaluations and withdrawal have a motivational function for persistence, and (c) that they are influenced by the mother's behavior when interacting…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Learning Motivation, Mastery Learning, Motivation