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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Influence of Task- Versus Self-Focus on Children's Achievement Performance and Attributions
Abstract
dc:descriptionPrevious research has shown that high-anxious persons generally perform less well than low-anxious persons in evaluative situations. One explanation for this is that high-anxious persons attend less well to task demands, because they are overly preoccupied with self-doubt. Low-anxious persons focus more on task demands. The present research investigated how self-focus versus task-focus instructions influenced the performance and attributions for performance of high- and low-anxious children. It was expected that task-focus instructions would benefit high-anxious children's performance.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Wigfield, Allan Lee
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8218586
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68812