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ERIC Number: EJ651725
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2002
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A Possible Selves Intervention To Enhance School Involvement.
Oyserman, Daphna; Terry, Kathy; Bybee, Deborah
Journal of Adolescence, v25 n3 p313-26 Jun 2002
Describes and evaluates a 9-week after-school, small group, activities-based intervention focused on enhancing youth's abilities to imagine themselves as successful adults and connecting these future imagines to current school involvement. By the end of the school year, intervention youth reported more bonding to school, concern about doing well in school, better school attendance, and for boys, less trouble at school. (Contains 49 references and 5 figures.) (GCP)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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