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Marsh, Herbert W.; Xu, Kate M.; Parker, Philip D.; Hau, Kit-Tai; Pekrun, Reinhard; Elliot, Andrew; Guo, Jiesi; Dicke, Theresa; Basarkod, Geetanjali – Educational Psychology Review, 2021
The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE), the negative effect of school-/class-average achievement on academic self-concept, is one of educational psychology's most universal findings. However, critiques of this research have proposed moderators based on achievement motivation theories. Nevertheless, because these motivational theories are not…
Descriptors: Evolution, Achievement Need, Academic Achievement, Prediction
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Lam, Shui-fong; Law, Wilbert; Chan, Chi-Keung; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Zhang, Xiao – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
The contribution of social context to school bullying was examined from the self-determination theory perspective in this longitudinal study of 536 adolescents from 3 secondary schools in Hong Kong. Latent class growth analysis of the student-reported data at 5 time points from grade 7 to grade 9 identified 4 groups of students: bullies (9.8%),…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Theories, Self Determination, Victims
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Cheung, Chau-kiu; Leung, Kwan-kwok – Social Indicators Research, 2008
Proponents of social equality attribute low life satisfaction to income inequality in society, an inequality which occurs when most people have relatively low income and only a few have high income. In contrast, range-frequency theory and other social comparison theories predict that when most people have low income, they are satisfied because of…
Descriptors: Low Income, Life Satisfaction, Prediction, Foreign Countries