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Ahmed, Wondimu; Minnaert, Alexander; Kuyper, Hans; van der Werf, Greetje – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The present study examined the reciprocal relationships between self-concept and anxiety in mathematics. A sample of 495 grade 7 students (51% girls) completed self-report measures assessing self-concept and anxiety three times in a school year. Structural equation modeling was used to test a cross-lagged panel model of reciprocal effects between…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Mathematics Anxiety, Self Concept, Correlation
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Malmberg, Lars-Erik; Hall, James; Martin, Andrew J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Past research into the ability of students to "bounce back" from everyday academic setback (academic buoyancy) has lacked sensitivity to the contexts in which children demonstrate this behavior. Here we aimed to contextualize past findings by reporting the results of an exploratory investigation that featured: (1) repeated measurement of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Achievement, Physical Education, Secondary School Students
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Haimovitz, Kyla; Wormington, Stephanie V.; Corpus, Jennifer Henderlong – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study examined how beliefs about intelligence, as mediated by ability-validation goals, predicted whether students lost or maintained levels of intrinsic motivation over the course of a single academic year. 978 third- through eighth-grade students were surveyed in the fall about their theories concerning the malleability of…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Student Motivation, Academic Ability, Beliefs
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Ahmed, Wondimu; Minnaert, Alexander; van der Werf, Greetje; Kuyper, Hans – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
This study examined the mutual influence of relatively stable personal competence and value beliefs and lesson specific appraisals of competence and value on daily emotional experiences of students in the classroom context. Personal competence and value beliefs were measured by means of questionnaire whereas appraisals and daily emotions were…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Role, Beliefs, Models
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Guay, Frederic; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Roy, Amelie; Litalien, David – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Three conceptual models were tested to examine the relationships among academic self-concept, autonomous academic motivation, and academic achievement. This allowed us to determine whether 1) autonomous academic motivation mediates the relation between academic self-concept and achievement, 2) academic self-concept mediates the relation between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Self Concept, Academic Ability
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Ruthig, Joelle C.; Hanson, Bridget L.; Marino, Joanna M. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
Early academic perceptions are critical to undergraduate students' success in college. This 3-phase study examined stability of and links between academic comparative optimism (ACO; positive expectations about future performance) and perceived academic control (PAC; sense of influence over academic outcomes) among 68 undergraduate students. ACO…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables