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Zuffiano, Antonio; Alessandri, Guido; Gerbino, Maria; Kanacri, Bernadette Paula Luengo; Di Giunta, Laura; Milioni, Michela; Caprara, Gian Vittorio – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
The present study examined the contribution of self-efficacy beliefs in self-regulated learning (SESRL) in predicting academic achievement at the end of junior high school above and beyond the effects of previous academic achievement, gender, socioeconomic status, intelligence, personality traits, and self-esteem. Participants included 170 (87…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intelligence, Self Efficacy, Personality Traits
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Haimovitz, Kyla; Wormington, Stephanie V.; Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study examined how beliefs about intelligence, as mediated by ability-validation goals, predicted whether students lost or maintained levels of intrinsic motivation over the course of a single academic year. 978 third- through eighth-grade students were surveyed in the fall about their theories concerning the malleability of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Student Motivation, Academic Ability, Beliefs