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Achievement Goals, Motivations, and Social and Emotional Adjustment in High School: A Longitudinal Mediation Test
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Duchesne, Stéphane; Ratelle, Catherine F. – Educational Psychology, 2020
This 2-year prospective study aimed to examine the predictive role of students' achievement goals (mastery-approach and performance-avoidance) on socioemotional adjustment in high school by assessing the potential mediating contribution of academic motivations. A total of 407 high school students (46% boys) were surveyed each year in Secondary 2…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment
Regrouping: Organized Activity Involvement and Social Adjustment across the Transition to High School
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Bohnert, Amy M.; Aikins, Julie Wargo; Arola, Nicole T. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2013
Although organized activities (OAs) have been established as important contexts of development, limited work has examined the role of OAs across the high school transition in buffering adolescents' social adjustment by providing opportunities for visibility and peer affiliation. The transition to high school is characterized by numerous changes…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, High School Students, Peer Relationship, Depression (Psychology)