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Coeducational and Single-Sex Physical Education: Students' Situational Interest in Learning Tasks Centred on Technical Skills
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Lentillon-Kaestner, Vanessa; Roure, Cédric – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Background: A student's choice to engage in a learning task is highly related to the student's environmental stimuli and his or her perception of interest. From this perspective, the construct of situational interest (SI) has been used to interpret students' motivation in task engagement. SI is assumed to be transitory, environmentally activated,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Coeducation, Single Sex Classes, Student Participation
Classroom Peer Influence from the Entire Class, Dominant Students, and Friends
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Müller, Christoph Michael; Hofmann, Verena; Fleischli, Janine; Studer, Felix – Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 2016
Recent research indicates that the development of antisocial behavior among students is influenced by the behavioral characteristics of their classmates. However, not all peers in a given class may exert the same influence. Thus, we examined the extent to which individual development is predicted by the perceived proportion of all students with…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Peer Influence, Antisocial Behavior, Student Behavior
The Chicken and the Egg: Longitudinal Associations between Moral Deficiencies and Bullying: A Parallel Process Latent Growth Model
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Sticca, Fabio; Perren, Sonja – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2015
The present study investigated the longitudinal association between the development of bullying (traditional bullying and cyberbullying) and the development of moral deficiencies (moral disengagement, low moral responsibility, and weak feelings of remorse) during adolescence. A total of 960 Swiss adolescents completed an electronic questionnaire…
Descriptors: Correlation, Bullying, Antisocial Behavior, Moral Values
Career-Choice Readiness in Adolescence: Developmental Trajectories and Individual Differences
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
Developing career-choice readiness is an important task in adolescence, but current theory and research has provided a rather static view of the phenomenon. The present study investigated the development of career-choice readiness among a group of 325 Swiss students assessed four times every 5 months from seventh through eighth grade. A…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Occupational Information, Self Efficacy, Individual Differences
Development and Criterion Validity of Differentiated and Elevated Vocational Interests in Adolescence
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Hirschi, Andreas – Journal of Career Assessment, 2009
Interest differentiation and elevation are supposed to provide important information about a person's state of interest development, yet little is known about their development and criterion validity. The present study explored these constructs among a group of Swiss adolescents. Study 1 applied a cross-sectional design with 210 students in 11th…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Validity, Adolescents, Individual Development
Using Accuracy of Self-Estimated Interest Type as a Sign of Career Choice Readiness in Career Assessment of Secondary Students
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Hirschi, Andreas; Lage, Damian – Journal of Career Assessment, 2008
A frequent applied method in career assessment to elicit clients' self-concepts is asking them to predict their interest assessment results. Accuracy in estimating one's interest type is commonly taken as a sign of more self-awareness and career choice readiness. The study evaluated the empirical relation of accuracy of self-estimation to career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Grade 7, Career Counseling, Counseling Psychology