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Peer reviewedOwuamanam, Donatus O. – Adolescence, 1983
Studied the relationship between academic motivation and occupational aspiration in 560 Nigerian secondary school students. Data from the Academic Motivation Questionnaire and the Employment Aspiration Questionnaire suggested that academic motivation and occupational aspiration seemed to complement each other. Both motivation and aspiration were…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Achievement Need, Adolescent Development, Adolescents
Peer reviewedBrounstein, Paul J.; And Others – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1988
A survey of 612 extremely gifted adolescents attending the Talent Identification Program identified three groups: (1) academically oriented; (2) socially oriented; and (3) highly motivated-gregarious. The tendency among gifted females to be more social and gregarious and better balanced between social and achievement interests than males warrants…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adolescent Development, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Wigfield, Allan; Tonks, Stephen – 2002
This chapter discusses the development of achievement motivation during adolescence from the perspective of expectancy-value theory, and explains how adolescents' expectancies for success and achievement values change during adolescence, particularly during educational transitions such as that from elementary to middle school and from middle to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Activities, Adolescent Attitudes
