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ERIC Number: EJ549539
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0965
The Roles of Personal Investment and Reasoning Competence in Career-Relevant Everyday Problem Solving.
Klaczynski, Paul A.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v66 n2 p193-210 Aug 1997
To examine developmental differences in practical problem solving, late adolescents and young adults were presented measures of everyday problem solving that were either self-relevant or self-neutral. Results indicated young adults were more goal-defensive than adolescents; for adolescents, reasoning competence was more strongly related to ratings of self-relevant than self-neutral problems; and relevance effects on strategy ratings were clear. (EV)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Late Adolescents, Problem Solving, Thinking Skills, Young Adults
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Self Relevance; Strategy Choice