The big-fish-little-pond effect: Generalizability of social comparison processes over two age cohorts from western, Asian, and middle eastern islamic countries

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 258-271

  Marsh, Herbert W ^a,b,c   Abduljabbar, Adel Salah ^b   Morin, Alexandre J S ^a   Parker, Philip ^a   Abdelfattah, Faisal ^b   Nagengast, Benjamin ^d   Abu Hilal, Maher M ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Big fish little pond effect; Contextual effects; Doubly latent multilevel models; Frame of reference effects; Trends in international mathematics and science study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925650024     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: 19392176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037485     Document Type: Article

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