Children's Beliefs about Control, Means-Ends, and Agency: Developmental Differences During Middle Childhood.

Skinner, Ellen A.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ379138

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Publication Date: 1988

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Children's Beliefs about Control, Means-Ends, and Agency: Developmental Differences During Middle Childhood.

Skinner, Ellen A.; And Others

International Journal of Behavioral Development, v11 n3 p369-88 Sep 1988

A new action-theoretical conceptualization was used to study developmental differences in children's generalized perceived control. Cross-sectional age differences in control beliefs, means-ends beliefs, and agency beliefs about school performance and friendship were studied in 240 boys and girls between 7 and 12 years of age. (RH)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Questionnaires

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: West Germany

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