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Peer reviewedMurray, Michael E. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1978
Several traits were measured in dyslexic and normal children: self-concept, achievement motivation, general manifest anxiety, test anxiety, and behavior deviance. Dyslexic children showed poorer personality adjustment; those dyslexic children who were successful in remedial training showed better emotional adjustment. Implications for remediation…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Individual Characteristics
Peer reviewedKeltikangas-Jarvinen, Liisa; Raikkonen, Katri – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1990
Dimensions of Type A behavior were studied in 990 healthy Finnish adolescents; and conceptualization was clarified in terms of achievement striving, self-concept, and sense of control. The two independent dimensions identified are discussed in terms of healthy adjustment and social maladjustment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Aggression
Keng, Chiam Heng; Park, Joon Hee – 1984
These two symposium papers provide: (1) a profile of rural adolescents in Malaysia, by Chiam Heng Keng; and (2) report the findings of a study of the psychology and life of Korean children and adolescents, by Joon Hee Park. In the former report, 521 boys and 550 girls completed a checklist consisting of 195 problems and indicated problems which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
