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ERIC Number: EJ662405
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
The Development of Competence-Related and Motivational Beliefs: An Investigation of Similarity and Influence among Friends.
Altermatt, Ellen Rydell; Pomerantz, Eva M.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v95 n1 p111-23 Mar 2003
Examines the degree to which children's achievement-related beliefs could be predicted from their friends' beliefs. Friends showed consistent, albeit modest similarities with regards to their self-perception of competence, academic standards, and importance of meeting standards, and preference for challenge. Friends appeared influential with regard to children's ability attributions for success and the importance they placed on meeting academic standards. (Contains 81 references and 5 tables.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Elementary Education, Friendship, Peer Influence, Predictor Variables, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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