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ERIC Number: EJ550057
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
"Should I Ask for Help?" The Role of Motivation and Attitudes in Adolescents' Help Seeking in Math Class.
Ryan, Allison M.; Pintrich, Paul R.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v89 n2 p329-41 Jun 1997
Motivational influences on help-seeking behavior in mathematics were studied with 203 seventh and eighth graders. Perceived benefits and threats were important influences on avoidance of help-seeking behavior, but only benefits predicted adaptive help seeking. Social competence had an indirect effect on avoidance of help seeking. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Grade 7, Grade 8, Help Seeking, Interpersonal Competence, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Mathematics, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Version of a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, April 1995).