Motivational processes involved in academic help seeking and help avoidance
Motivational processes involved in academic help seeking and help avoidance
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寻求学术帮助和避免帮助的动机过程
DOI:
10.15760/etd.5218
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
G. Marchand
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文献类型:
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作者:
G. Marchand
An abstract of the thesis of Gwen Catherine Marchand for the Master of Science in Psychology presented April 26, 2004. Title: Motivational Processes Involved in Academic Help Seeking and Help Avoidance. During middle childhood, help seeking and avoidance are two ways children deal with academic problems. For this study, the dominant view of help seeking as a strategy of self-regulated learning was elaborated to consider it a way of coping framed within the Self-System Model of Motivational Development. This framework allows for the consideration of (1) the opposite of help seeking (help avoidance) as a motivated way of coping, (2) the central role of teachers, and (3) the operation of multiple self-system processes in shaping students' coping behaviors. Self-report, teacher-report, and school record data from 765 3rd through 6h grade students and their teachers were analyzed to determine the structure of help seeking and avoidance, the antecedents and consequences of these ways of coping, and developmental differences that may account for age-related changes in coping. Data were available from two time points, the fall and spring of one academic year, allowing for concurrent and change over time analyses. 2 Structural Equation Modeling demonstrated that help seeking and concealment are related, but different ways of coping with academic problems. Students' help seeking was positively correlated with concurrent assessments of their engagement whereas concealment was correlated with disaffection. Moreover, consistent with causal hypotheses, help seeking predicted increases in behavioral engagement over the course of the school year, while concealment predicted increases in disaffection. In terms of predictors of coping, relatedness showed unique effects on coping over and above those of perceived competence and autonomy. In addition, teacher support predicted increases in help seeking, and reciprocally, student coping predicted changes in teacher support over the course of a school year. The results of medi"ational models indicated that teacher support may influence coping through its effects on children's self-system processes. Finally, no age differences were found in the links between coping and self-system processes or teacher support. The implications of considering concealment as a motivated way of coping and the importance of social relationships and a sense of relatedness in academic coping are discussed. Recommendations for future research are given that focus on avoidance, diverse populations, specific developmental processes, additional social partners, and times of transition. MOTIVATIONAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN ACADEMIC HELP SEEKING AND HELP AVOIDANCE by GWEN CATHERINE MARCHAND A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE m PSYCHOLOGY Portland State University 2004 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Drs. Thomas Kindermann, Gabriela Martorell, and Carol Morgaine for all of their help with this project. Additionally, I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Ellen Skinner for being such a patient and dedicated mentor. Her passion for understanding the development of children's academic motivation and coping through research has been a source of inspiration for me. I am grateful for the knowledge she has shared with me and her insight with regards to this project and my future research. In terms of this research project, I would like to acknowledge that it was supported by the W. T. Grant Foundation, from Research Grant No. HD19914 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and from Training Grant No. 527594 from the National Institutes of Mental Health. I would also like to express my gratitude to the Motivation Research Group, especially James Connell, Edward Deci, Thomas Kindermann, Richard Ryan, Ellen Skinner, and James Wellborn, without whom information for the current project would not be available. Likewise, I would like to thank the Brockport School District, and its superintendent, principals, teachers, students, and parents for their generous participation.
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影响因子:
7.6
作者:
RYAN, RM;CONNELL, JP
通讯作者:
CONNELL, JP
影响因子:
7.6
作者:
B. Patrick;E. Skinner;J. Connell
通讯作者:
B. Patrick;E. Skinner;J. Connell
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Ryan,RM;Lynch,JH
通讯作者:
Lynch,JH
DOI:
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发表时间:
1998
期刊:
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
影响因子:
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作者:
Skinner,EA;Zimmer-Gembeck,MJ;Connell,JP
通讯作者:
Connell,JP