Achievement

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Behavioral and emotional disturbances in the offspring of depressed parents with anger attacks.

BACKGROUND: To examine the emotional and behavioral characteristics of the offspring of depressed parents with and without anger attacks. METHODS: Forty-three parents who met criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) completed the Achenbach Child ...
Jonathan E Alpert, Timothy Petersen, Pamela A Roffi, George I Papakostas, Rachel Freed, Megan M Smith, Andrew R Spector, Andrew A Nierenberg, Jerrold F Rosenbaum, Maurizio Fava (Psychother Psychosom, 200303-04)
behavioral-emotional-disturbances-offspring-depressed-parents-anger.asp

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Genetic influences on childhood competencies: a twin study.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate genetic, environmental, and rater contrast influences on parental reports of Activities, Social, School, and Total Competence scales of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). METHOD: Parents of 492 twin pairs aged 8-12 years ...
James J Hudziak, William Copeland, Lawrence P Rudiger, Thomas M Achenbach, Andrew C Heath, Richard D Todd (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 200303)
genetic-influences-childhood-competencies-twin-study.asp

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Childrens motivation in elementary physical education: an expectancy-value model of achievement choice.

This study examined childrens motivation in elementary physical education within an expectancy-value model developed by Eccles and her colleagues. Four hundred fourteen students in second and fourth grades completed questionnaires assessing their ...
Ping Xiang, Ron McBride, Jianmin Guan, Melinda Solmon (Res Q Exerc Sport, 200303)
children-s-motivation-elementary-physical-education-expectancy-value.asp

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Construction and initial validation of the self-worth protection scale.

BACKGROUND: The self-worth theory of achievement motivation holds that in certain circumstances students stand to gain by deliberately withdrawing effort. When failure occurs despite effort, students are likely to conclude that failure resulted from lack ...
Ted Thompson, Dale L Dinnel (Br J Educ Psychol, 200303)
construction-initial-validation-self-worth-protection-scale.asp

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Multiple goals, motivation and academic learning.

BACKGROUND: The type of academic goals pursued by students is one of the most important variables in motivational research in educational contexts. Although motivational theory and research have emphasised the somewhat exclusive nature of two types of ...
Antonio Valle, Ramón G Cabanach, José C Núnez, Julio González-Pienda, Susana Rodríguez, Isabel Piñeiro (Br J Educ Psychol, 200303)
multiple-goals-motivation-academic-learning.asp

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Achieving board certification in psychiatry: a cohort study.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to track the progress of a cohort of graduates of psychiatry residency training programs in achieving certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). These data provide a detailed picture ...
Dorthea Juul, James H Scully, Stephen C Scheiber (Am J Psychiatry, 200303)
achieving-board-certification-psychiatry-cohort-study.asp

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A standardized open-ended questionnaire as a substitute for a personal interview in dental admissions.

This paper discusses the need for reliable and valid measures of personality and motivational factors in the prediction of success and attrition in a dental school. The admissions system currently used in most schools includes personality factors that ...
Naomi Gafni, Avital Moshinsky, Jaime Kapitulnik (J Dent Educ, 200303)
standardized-open-ended-questionnaire-substitute-personal-interview.asp

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Interpersonal attraction as a measure of estimation of cohesiveness in elite volleyball teams.

This study examined differences in interpersonal attraction between starters and nonstarters of elite male volleyball teams and the correlation between interpersonal attraction and teams final place. 106 players from 10 teams of the A1 Greek National ...
Nikolaos Bergeles, Dimitris Hatziharistos (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
interpersonal-attraction-measure-estimation-cohesiveness-elite.asp

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Value priorities in American and British female and male university students.

Value priorities were analyzed as they relate to nationality (American vs. British) and gender in a study involving 207 university students from the 2 countries. Participants responded anonymously to S. H. Schwartzs Value Survey (1992, 1994), consisting ...
Richard M Ryckman, Diane M Houston (J Soc Psychol, 200302)
value-priorities-american-british-female-male-university-students.asp

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Relation between social cohesion and team performance in soccer teams.

Investigations of the influence on team performance of team composition, in terms of task-related attributes, e.g., personality traits, cognitive abilities, often assumes this relation to be mediated by the strength (intensity) of the interpersonal ...
Aharon Tziner, Nicola Nicola, Anis Rizac (Percept Mot Skills, 200302)
relation-social-cohesion-team-performance-soccer-teams.asp