Research suggests that under stressful conditions, relative contribution of such intrapersonal factors as personality traits, motivational dynamic factors, and transitory emotional states may become predominant in influencing achievement. When analyses are based on change scores rather than single-occasion measures, influence of emotional states…

Reports a six-year study of explicit references to young children's small physical stature in an Australian newspaper. Suggests that when newspaper representations of children and childhood are examined for their focus on children's diminutive size, two conflicting themes emerge: endearment versus depreciation. Suggests that these size-value…