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Simpkins, Sandra D.; Fredricks, Jennifer A.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The Eccles' expectancy-value model posits that a cascade of mechanisms explain associations between parents' beliefs and youths' achievement-related behaviors. Specifically, parents' beliefs predict parents' behaviors; in turn, parents' behaviors predict youths' motivational beliefs, and youths' motivational beliefs predict their behaviors. This…
Descriptors: Mothers, Beliefs, Adolescents, Self Concept
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Cole, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2013
This commentary traces discussions of psychological differences and deficits from the mid-1950s to the current day, positioning the disciplinary discussions in the social-historical context in which they took place. The challenges of assessing diagnoses of deficit and the potential harms that result when misdiagnosis is implemented as social…
Descriptors: Psychological Testing, Cultural Context, Social Environment, Ethnicity