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Sonja Laine; Elina Kuusisto; Kirsi Tirri – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024
There is a lack of research on students' conceptions of giftedness and intelligence, despite recognition of their influence on real-life factors such as achievement and motivation. This paper presents a cross-sectional mixed methods study that investigated Finnish students' (age 6-16 years; N = 1282) implicit conceptions of giftedness and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Gifted, Intelligence, Foreign Countries
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Bosson, Marlene; Maggiori, Christian; Gygax, Pascal Mark; Gay, Christelle – Journal of Youth Studies, 2012
The present study constitutes an investigation of tobacco consumption, related attitudes and individual differences in smoking or non-smoking behaviors in a sample of adolescents of different ages in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. We investigated three school-age groups (7th-grade, 9th-grade, and the second-year of high school) for…
Descriptors: Smoking, Drinking, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Dickhauser, Oliver; Reinhard, Marc-Andre – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2010
Individual differences in need for cognition (NFC) have been found to correspond with differences in information processing. Individuals with lower NFC process information using a peripheral route compared to individuals higher in NFC. These differences may effect the formation of performance expectancies. Based on previous work demonstrating that…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Student Motivation, Grade 8, Grade 9