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Petiet, Carole Anne – 1983
Based on the assumption that differences in personal meaning and in the social significance of loss predispose widows and divorced individuals to different, specific vulnerabilities during grieving, 410 separated, divorced, and widowed women, aged 23 to 76 years, with at least one child, completed the Multiple Affect Adjective Checklist, the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adults, Divorce, Females
Download full textLicht, Barbara G. – 1987
This paper examines the ways in which children's beliefs about their abilities influence their academic achievement. These beliefs interact with the demands of different tasks or learning situations. Research is described which deals with children's causal attributions for their academic success or failure and with children's definitions of…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Beliefs
