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ERIC Number: EJ346429
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Performance Impairment after Failure: Mechanism and Sex Differences.
Miller, Arden
Journal of Educational Psychology, v78 n6 p486-91 Dec 1986
Two experiments show that performance impairment after failure can occur in different ways, depending on the goals, values, self-perception, sex, presence of an observer, and other attributional tendencies of the individual responding to that failure. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Failure, Grade 7, Helplessness, Junior High Schools, Observation, Performance, Self Concept, Sex Differences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Ego Threat Hypothesis; Learned Helplessness