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Looi, Kim Hoe – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Research on new venture creation is often criticised for its deficits of theoretical sophistication and methodological rigour. This paper develops a framework by combining the values theory and the intention theory and validates it by conducting a rigorous structural equation modelling analysis based on responses obtained from 355 Malaysian…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Ethnicity, Intention
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Flack, Tove – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2017
Relational aggression is a destructive behaviour that increases during adolescence. In order to develop effective interventions aimed to combat relational aggression, there is an urgent need to study what motivates this behaviour. This study investigates the association between status stress, status goals, and relational aggressive behaviour in a…
Descriptors: Aggression, Developmental Stages, Correlation, Secondary School Students
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Wang, Jing; King, Ronnel B.; Rao, Nirmala – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2019
The role of mastery and performance goals in self-regulated learning (SRL) has received much attention. However, in collectivist and Confucian-heritage contexts, social-academic goals may also play an important, yet unexamined role in SRL. This study examined the association between social-academic goals and SRL. We tested a hierarchical model…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Structural Equation Models, Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation
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Masland, Lindsay C.; Lease, A. Michele – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
The contributions of academic achievement motivation and social status to peer-reported academic influence were explored in a sample of 322 children in grades three through five. Latent moderated structural equation modeling indicated that children who value academics are more likely to be rated by peers as academically influential. Social status…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Social Status, Influences
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Gommans, Rob; Cillessen, Antonius H. N. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2015
Children's peer relationships are frequently assessed with peer nominations. An important methodological issue is whether to collect unlimited or limited nominations. Some researchers have argued that the psychometric differences between both methods are negligible, while others have claimed that one is superior over the other. The current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Peer Relationship, Comparative Analysis
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Rodkin, Philip C.; Ryan, Allison M.; Jamison, Rhonda; Wilson, Travis – Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examines motivational precursors of social status and the applicability of a dual-component model of social competence to middle childhood. Concurrent and longitudinal relationships between self-reported social goals (social development, demonstration-approach, demonstration-avoid goal orientations), teacher-rated prosocial and…
Descriptors: Social Status, Prosocial Behavior, Aggression, Interpersonal Competence
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Yoon, Eunju; Hacker, Jason; Hewitt, Amber; Abrams, Matthew; Cleary, Sarah – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2012
The present study proposed and tested a conceptual model of acculturation/enculturation and subjective well-being (SWB) by including social connectedness in mainstream society, social connectedness in the ethnic community, perceived discrimination, and expected social status as mediators. Survey data from 273 Asian American college students in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Status, Structural Equation Models, Acculturation
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Garn, Alex; McCaughtry, Nate; Shen, Bo; Martin, Jeffrey J.; Fahlman, Mariane M. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2011
This study investigated the relationships among four distinct types of social goals, effort, and disruptive behavior in urban physical education. Social responsibility, affiliation, recognition, status goals, along with effort and disruptive behavior in physical education were reported by high school physical education students (N = 314) from…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Physical Education, Social Status, Structural Equation Models
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von Stumm, Sophie; Macintyre, Sally; Batty, David G.; Clark, Heather; Deary, Ian J. – Intelligence, 2010
In a birth cohort of 6281 men from Aberdeen, Scotland, social class of origin, childhood intelligence, childhood behavior disturbance and education were examined as predictors of status attainment in midlife (46 to 51 years). Social class of origin, intelligence and behavior disturbance were conceptualized as correlated predictors, whose effects…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Social Class, Social Status, Qualifications
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Fletcher, Anne C.; Walls, Jill K.; Eanes, Angella Y.; Troutman, David R. – School Community Journal, 2010
We tested a model considering the manner in which mothers' use of their own social relationships and efforts to facilitate their children's school-based social relationships were associated with two distinct types of school-based competence: academic achievement and levels of stress experienced within the school environment. Fourth grade children…
Descriptors: Mothers, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires