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Arnold, Marjorie R. – 1976
This study was designed to identify the goal approach behaviors which distinguish first-graders with a successful achievement orientation from equally competent first-graders with an unsuccessful orientation. Based on scores of test anxiety and expectancy for success, 100 boys were designated either success-oriented or failure-threatened and then…
Descriptors: Achievement, Anxiety, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education
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Holt, John; Keats, Daphne M. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1992
Investigates the influence of ethnic cultural background and multicultural interaction for 120 males drawn from Aboriginal, Anglo-Saxon, Chinese, and Lebanese cultural communities in Australia. Responses to the Work Cognitions Questionnaire reveal differences in the structure of achievement goals and work values for the 4 groups of 30 subjects…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Chinese