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Streck, Hannah; Kessels, Ursula – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
According to attributional theory, when the application of effort leads to success we praise the achievement. Effort and ability, however, are seen as compensatory and thus, paradoxically, being praised can lead to attributions of low ability. Our study investigates whether praise, not for academic performance, but for social classroom behavior,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Students, Student Behavior
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Kessels, Ursula – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
The goal of the study was twofold: (1) to examine the relationship between the gender-stereotyped perceptions of prototypic peers excelling in different school subjects and the personal liking for these subjects: (2) to examine whether the popularity of adolescents depends on their gender-role congruent achievement at school. Participants were n =…
Descriptors: Sex Role, Grade 9, Physics, Peer Acceptance