Achievement

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Exploratory factor analysis of the Sport Orientation Questionnaire and the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire in a Japanese sport setting.

This study examined sport achievement orientation within the japanese sport setting. 1,836 male and 425 female athletes (M age = 18.6 yr.) from 47 sports completed the Japanese version of the Sport Orientation Questionnaire (24 items), and 1,781 males ...
Hiroaki Wakayama, Eiji Watanabe, Kimihiro Inomata (Percept Mot Skills, 200212)
exploratory-factor-analysis-sport-orientation-questionnaire-task-ego.asp

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Reflections on the meritocracy debate in Britain: a response to Richard Breen and John Goldthorpe.

A paper by Breen and Goldthorpe recently claimed to have exposed fatal flaws in my work on meritocracy in Britain. This paper responds to their criticisms. The results of their re-analysis of the NCDS data set are shown to be consistent with my earlier ...
Peter Saunders (Br J Sociol, 200212)
reflections-meritocracy-debate-britain-response-richard-breen-john.asp

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Identifying criterion-related patterns of predictor scores using multiple regression.

Along with examples involving vocational interests and mathematics achievement, the authors describe a multiple regression based, pattern recognition procedure that can be used to identify a pattern of predictor scores associated with high scores on a ...
Mark L Davison, Ernest C Davenport (Psychol Methods, 200212)
identifying-criterion-related-patterns-predictor-scores-multiple.asp

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Developing deep learning approaches and personal teaching efficacy within a preservice teacher education context.

BACKGROUND: University students approaches to learning have been demonstrated to affect learning outcomes across a wide range of courses, favouring the use of a deep approach. Interventions to promote the use of deep approaches have had mixed success, ...
Christopher Gordon, Ray Debus (Br J Educ Psychol, 200212)
developing-deep-learning-approaches-personal-teaching-efficacy.asp

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Measuring self-reported studying and learning for university students: linking attitudes and behaviours on the same scale.

BACKGROUND: The relationships between self-reported Approaches to Studying and Self-concept, Self-capability and Studying and Learning Behaviour are usually studied by measuring the variables separately (using factor analysis and Cronbach Alphas) and ...
Russell F Waugh (Br J Educ Psychol, 200212)
measuring-self-reported-studying-learning-university-students-linking.asp

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Family functioning and psychological well-being, school adjustment, and problem behavior in chinese adolescents with and without economic disadvantage.

Using an indigenously developed measure of family functioning, the author examined the association between family functioning and adolescent adjustment in 1,519 Chinese adolescents. Results showed that family functioning was significantly related to ...
Daniel T L Shek (J Genet Psychol, 200212)
family-functioning-psychological-well-school-adjustment-problem.asp

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Comparing psychological and sociological approaches to identity: identity status, identity capital, and the individualization process.

Psychologists have been studying identity processes at the intrapsychic level that resemble what sociologists have noted at the macro-societal level. Specifically, using the identity capital model introduced in previous issues of this journal (Côté, ...
James E Côtè, Seth J Schwartz (J Adolesc, 200212)
comparing-psychological-sociological-approaches-identity-identity.asp

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Psychometric properties and predictive validity of the Mt Scale of the MMPI-2.

The College Maladjustment (Mt) Scale is a 41-item supplementary scale of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. It was designed to identify college students classified as maladjusted. Very little research has been conducted on the Mt Scale in ...
Dean Lauterbach, Mark Garcia, Andrew Gloster (Assessment, 200212)
psychometric-properties-predictive-validity-mt-scale-mmpi.asp

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Relationship between premorbid functioning and symptom severity as assessed at first episode of psychosis.

OBJECTIVE: Investigating the relationship between premorbid and prodromal status and the clinical manifestations of the first psychotic episode is relevant for understanding the pathophysiology of psychosis and for improving management of the disease. ...
Jonathan Rabinowitz, Goedele De Smedt, Philip D Harvey, Michael Davidson (Am J Psychiatry, 200212)
relationship-premorbid-functioning-symptom-severity-assessed-first.asp

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Teaching children to recognise rhyme does not directly promote phonemic awareness.

BACKGROUND: Rhyming ability and phoneme awareness both predict aspects of reading development, with rhyming emerging earlier than phoneme awareness in most children. This study employed an experimental technique to elucidate the causal connections ...
Michelle E Martin, Brian Byrne (Br J Educ Psychol, 200212)
teaching-children-recognise-rhyme-not-directly-promote-phonemic.asp