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Schraw, Gregory; Wadkins, Theresa; Olafson, Lori – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
The authors conducted a grounded theory study of academic procrastination to explore adaptive and maladaptive aspects of procrastination and to help guide future empirical research. They discuss previous research on the definition and dimensionality of procrastination and describe the study in which interview data were collected in 4 stages,…
Descriptors: Models, Failure, Fear, Coping
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Wei, Meifen; Ku, Tsun-Yao – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
The present study developed and examined a conceptual model of working through self-defeating patterns. Participants were 390 college students at a large midwestern university. Results indicated that self-defeating patterns mediated the relations between attachment and distress. Also, self-esteem mediated the link between self-defeating patterns…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Depression (Psychology), Failure, College Students
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McMahan, Ian D. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1973
A model of achievement behavior incorporates the findings that attributions to ability and task were associated with high expectancies following success and low expectancies following failure, and that attributions to effort and luck were associated with low expectancies following success and high expectancies following failure. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Expectation, Failure