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Peer reviewedKeller, Harold R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Elementary School Students, Extinction (Psychology), Learning
Peer reviewedKliewer, Wendy – Developmental Psychology, 1991
Studied the role of social conditions, Type A behavior, monitoring, blunting, and locus of control in second and fifth graders' methods of coping with everyday stressors. Except for Type A behavior, coping was associated with the predictors. Strongest associations were found for social competence. Predictors were not associated with ratings of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Coping, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Download full textLevin, Valerie M. – 1992
Many studies have addressed the relationship of locus of control to gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and achievement. One area which has not received as much attention is the correlation of locus of control to the condition of being at-risk. Most research involving at-risk students has focused on identifying this group with in-school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Elementary School Students, Ethnicity
Peer reviewedGuttmann, Joseph – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Pupils at an elementary school in Israel, their mothers, and their teachers were studied to determine how each group would attribute the causes of children's problem behavior. Pupils and teachers were apt to blame external factors. Parents tended to distribute responsibility for problems more evenly. (Author/PP)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Congruence (Psychology)
Peer reviewedWard, Carolyn M. – Urban Review, 1998
Examines the student-discipline policies developed for an inner-city elementary school and grounded in a philosophy of developing individual locus of control. Recommendations for other schools are based on an interactionist theory of student discipline that sees schooling as a process promoting internal control. High expectations for all students…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Crime, Discipline
Segal, Cecile P. – 1974
The inferior performance of external locus of control (LOC) subjects (Ss) on achievement tests has been attributed by many researchers to cognitive and perceptual deficiencies. Several studies have shown that advance organizers (AO) which provide optimal anchorage and mobilize existing relevant concepts, facilitate learning of verbal material.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Gama, Elizabeth Maria P.; Jesus, Denise Meyrelles de – 1997
How low-income Brazilian students explain their school performance and the predominant achievement causes were studied. The relationship between achievement attribution and school achievement and students' conceptions of choice, career, agency, and relationship with achievement were also studied, using the causal attribution theory of B. Weiner.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Hendrix, Sandra; Dokecki, Paul R. – 1973
This paper is a preliminary report of a project designed to determine the family and other environmental factors which are associated with effective functioning in children from low income environments. The purpose of the project was to determine the strengths in poverty situations which should be capitalized on in developing educational programs…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Behavior Patterns
