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Hyman, Joshua – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Head Start is a federally funded preschool program for poor children designed to help close the gap between those children and their more advantaged peers before they begin public schooling. Given that Head Start appears to have positive long-run impacts on its recipients, a natural and important next question to ask is: What are the channels…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Cognitive Development, Program Effectiveness
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Kingston, Emma – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the emotional competence of first year undergraduates enrolled on a high or low drop-out rate (HDR and LDR, respectively) course, at a newly established university within the UK. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed methods approach using both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods was…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Competence, College Freshmen
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Fry, P. S. – Developmental Psychology, 1975
A total of 57 7- and 8-year-old subjects matched on measures of socioeconomic status, locus of control, need for social approval, and self esteem were assigned to two affect conditions and one control condition. Subsequently they were exposed to a resistance-to-temptation task involving play with a forbidden toy. (GO)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Elementary School Students, Locus of Control, Primary Education
Owings, Jeffrey; Stocking, Carol – 1985
The report presents data from the base year (1980) and first followup (1982) of a longitudinal study of U.S. high school seniors and sophomores. Students were asked in self-administered questionnaires whether they had any of seven specific handicaps; whether they had a condition that limited the kinds or amounts of work or education they could…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Disabilities, Followup Studies, High Schools
Layden, Mary Anne – 1982
Low self-esteem and depressed individuals tend to have an attributional style of externalizing success and internalizing failure. To evaluate a program developed to help reverse this pattern of responses to be more similar to high self-esteem and nondepressed individuals, subjects were first tested for self-esteem, depression, and attributional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Change Strategies
Kifer, Edward – Evaluation in Education: International Progress, 1977
Successful and unsuccessful elementary school students are compared with respect to: (1) self-esteem, (2) self-concept of academic ability, (3) intellectual achievement responsibility--locus of control, and (4) the students' concept of home concern and reward for academic achievement. Several self concept tests are described, and bibliographical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Affective Behavior, Elementary Education
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Houtz, John C.; And Others – Journal of Psychology, 1981
Seventy-two Black and Hispanic fourth through sixth graders completed a variety of problem-solving tasks emphasizing skills of preparation, production, and judgment. With reading achievement controlled within the sample, results suggest that these three sets of skills involve evaluative activity and that locus of control and self-esteem are…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Black Youth, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Weiner, Bernard – 1985
The psychology of emotion has been studied primarily from an intrapsychic perspective. A social psychological perspective of emotion can supplement this intrapsychic approach by examining three areas: (1) controlling the emotions of others; (2) controlling the thoughts of others through emotional expression; and (3) emotional congruence, or the…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Children
Gollwitzer, Peter M.; Earle, Walter B. – 1980
It has been suggested that egotistical attributions for success and failure are mediated by the affective reactions resulting from achievement outcomes. To establish the motivational impact of failure-related affect on subsequent ego-defensive attributions, an excitation transfer paradigm was used to manipulate the negative feelings elicited by…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Emotional Response, Failure
Vanistendael, Stefan – 1995
Resilience is the capacity of a person to do well facing difficult conditions in life. This implies capacities of resistance and of positive construction. Discovering the ways to contribute to resilience in children can begin with examination of resilient children. Research has suggested five interlinking bases for resilience: (1) social support…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Development, Child Welfare, Cognitive Processes
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Belle, Deborah; Burr, Robin – Child Study Journal, 1991
Investigated the concerns that lead children to confide in others or refrain from doing so. Subjects were 8, 10, and 13 year olds. Results indicated that the children who more frequently confided in others and the children with more internal locus of control described more potential costs and benefits of confiding than did children who rarely…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Characterization, Children, Fathers
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Ellis, Edwin S. – Remedial and Special Education, 1998
This follow-up article outlines goals, principles, and techniques for improving curriculum and instruction for secondary students with learning disabilities so that the following affective goals are fostered: intrinsic motivation, internal locus of control, academic and social self-concept, self-esteem, a sense of competence and confidence, an…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Curriculum Development, Emotional Development, Humanistic Education