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Gao, Zan; Podlog, Leslie W.; Harrison, Louis – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among college students' 2 x 2 goal orientations (mastery-approach [MAp], mastery-avoidance [MAv], performance-approach [PAp], performance-avoidance [PAv]), situational motivation (intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, external regulation and amotivation) and effort/persistence in…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, College Students, Academic Persistence, Learner Engagement
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Vidmar, Maša – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
In the present study the longitudinal relations between quantity of centre-based child care (in months) and teacher reports of internalising and externalising behaviour in the first and second grades were examined for 325 Slovenian children. The socio-political context of affordable, accessible and homogenously high-quality child care is quite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies, Child Care
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Ramo, Danielle E.; Myers, Mark G.; Brown, Sandra A. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2009
Self-efficacy is an important cognitive predictor of substance abuse treatment outcome. Although measures of coping self-efficacy are related to substance use relapse in adults, their properties are not well-known in adolescent populations. The present study examined 223 adolescents while in treatment for substance abuse and comorbid psychiatric…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Self Efficacy, Predictive Validity, Adolescents