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Dan Zhao; Baoyu Bai; Chengzhi Bai – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Academic buoyancy has a significant and stable effect on adolescent academic achievement. Thus, it is vital to examine the antecedent variables of academic buoyancy. However, little research has examined the effect of body image dissatisfaction on academic buoyancy. This study investigates the link between body image dissatisfaction and academic…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Human Body, Satisfaction, Adolescents
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Melody Wilson; Jamaal Sharif Matthews – npj Science of Learning, 2024
This study investigates the racial-mathematical identity profiles of Black American adolescents. Survey data were collected in five schools across one U.S. urban school district at two time points (spring 2018 [n = 197] and spring 2019 [n = 210]). Based on extant research regarding psychological response patterns to racialized school stress, we…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African American Students, Urban Schools, Anxiety
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Deemer, Eric D.; Ogas, Joseph P.; Barr, Amy C.; Bowdon, Richard D.; Hall, Mark C.; Paula, Stefan; Capobianco, Brenda M.; Lim, Seoyoung – Research in Science Education, 2022
The current study used self-determination theory to examine the efficacy of an established and rigorous STEM enrichment program, the Summer Science Program, in promoting high school students' motivation for, and identification with, scientific research. Results of latent change analyses indicated that students' scientific research identity,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Scientific Research, STEM Education
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Coudevylle, Guillaume R.; Boulley-Escriva, Géraldine; Finez, Lucie; Eugène, Karen; Robin, Nicolas – Educational Psychology, 2020
The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether the motivational climates (MCs) drawn from achievement goal and self-determination theories would affect perceived competence and the use of claimed self-handicapping. Specifically, this study examined the effects of performance MC, mastery MC and need-supportive MC on these two…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Performance, Mastery Learning
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Sevil, Javier; Abós, Ángel; Aibar, Alberto; Julián, José Antonio; García-González, Luis – European Physical Education Review, 2016
Grounded in Self-Determination Theory and Achievement Goal Theory, the objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of an intervention programme on a series of motivational variables in a corporal expression teaching unit. An analysis was also conducted in terms of whether the impact of the intervention would be effective in boys and…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Gender Differences, Intervention, Experimental Groups
Simpson, Joanne Denise – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore gifted alumni perceptions of how participating in an Enrichment Seminar course met their socioemotional needs as they related to identity formation, and whether or not their academic achievement was influenced. The researcher used interviews, narrative questions, and surveys to gather data.…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Seminars, Alumni, Attitudes
Meyer, Rachel Heather – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The current study investigated the motivation of college students with disabilities to disclose their disability(s) to the university and to utilize disability support services. Eleven college students with a diversity of invisible disabilities from a large university were interviewed using a narrative approach. Analysis involved a combination of…
Descriptors: College Students, Disabilities, Student Motivation, Student Personnel Services