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Peer reviewedWachs, Theodore D. – Developmental Psychology, 1987
Tested the generalizability of the specificity model of environmental action to the domain of mastery motivation in infants. Found that the specificity model successfully predicted that aspects of the environment uniquely related to dimensions of mastery motivation, and that infant sex and temperament mediated the relation of environment to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Experiential Learning, Family Environment, Infants
Peer reviewedLutkenhaus, 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
