Assessing malleable social-psychological academic attitudes in early adolescence

Journal of School Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2018, Pages 57-71

  Pyne, Jaymes ^a   Rozek, Christopher S ^b   Borman, Geoffrey D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Noncognitive factors; Racial differences; Social psychological interventions; Stage environment fit theory; Student well being

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCIENTIST; STUDENT; WELLBEING; ACADEMIC SUCCESS; ATTITUDE; CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ACADEMIC SUCCESS; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STUDENTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85055743419     PISSN: 00224405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2018.10.004     Document Type: Article

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