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Calarco, Jessica McCrory – American Sociological Review, 2011
What role do children play in education and stratification? Are they merely passive recipients of unequal opportunities that schools and parents create for them? Or do they actively shape their own opportunities? Through a longitudinal, ethnographic study of one socioeconomically diverse, public elementary school, I show that children's…
Descriptors: Working Class, Ethnography, Help Seeking, Social Class
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Mukolo, Abraham; Heflinger, Craig Anne; Wallston, Kenneth A. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To describe the state of the literature on stigma associated with children's mental disorders and highlight gaps in empirical work. Method: We reviewed child mental illness stigma articles in (English only) peer-reviewed journals available through Medline and PsychInfo. We augmented these with adult-oriented stigma articles that focus…
Descriptors: Health Services, Help Seeking, Stereotypes, Mental Disorders
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Shih, Shu-Shen – Elementary School Journal, 2007
This study explored how Taiwanese upper-elementary-school students' motivational characteristics were related to their decisions regarding avoidance of help seeking in the classroom context. Two hundred and ninety-eight sixth-grade students completed a self-report survey assessing their attitudes and behaviors related to help avoidance,…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Student Attitudes, Intelligence
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Linnenbrink, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
The study examines the effects of a quasi-experimental classroom goal condition (mastery, performance-approach, combined mastery/performance-approach) and entering personal goal orientations on motivation, emotional well-being, help seeking, cognitive engagement, and achievement for 237 upper elementary students during a 5-week math unit…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Test Anxiety, Help Seeking, Goal Orientation