Achievement - Research News and Information

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Goal striving within agentic and communal roles: separate but functionally similar pathways to enhanced well-being.

Jun 2008 Do agency and communion strivings provide functionally similar but predictively independent pathways to enhanced well-being? We tested this idea via a year-long study of 493 diverse community adults. Our process model,... Read more...

Going forward by drawing from the past: personal strivings, personally meaningful memories, and personality traits.

Jun 2008 The present research explored the idea that what people strive for in their daily lives is meaningfully linked to their autobiographical memories and stable personality characteristics. Study 1 showed that (a) personal... Read more...

Profiling the Association of Academic Chairmen of Plastic Surgery.

May 2008 BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to identify the common characteristics that may determine potential academicians and chairpersons in academic plastic surgery. The study examined the motivations behind the... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Achievement'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Diversity. Gender similarities characterize math performance. 25 Jul 2008
• Goal striving within agentic and communal roles: separate but functionally similar pathways to enhanced well-being. Jun 2008
• Going forward by drawing from the past: personal strivings, personally meaningful memories, and personality traits. Jun 2008
• Profiling the Association of Academic Chairmen of Plastic Surgery. May 2008
• Academic performance in children with rolandic epilepsy. May 2008
• Predictors of academic attainments of young people with Down's syndrome. May 2008
• Peer relationships and academic achievement as interacting predictors of depressive symptoms during middle childhood. May 2008
• Preventing conduct problems and improving school readiness: evaluation of the Incredible Years Teacher and Child Training Programs in high-risk schools. May 2008
• School performance of adolescents born preterm: neuropsychological and background correlates. May 2008
• Discerning direct and mediated effects of ecological structures and processes on adolescents' educational outcomes. May 2008
• Adolescents' participation in organized activities and developmental success 2 and 8 years after high school: do sponsorship, duration, and intensity matter? May 2008
• Gender matters, too: the influences of school racial discrimination and racial identity on academic engagement outcomes among African American adolescents. May 2008
• A reputation for success (or failure): the association of peer academic reputations with academic self-concept, effort, and performance across the upper elementary grades. May 2008
• Mothers' causal attributions concerning the reading achievement of their children with and without familial risk for dyslexia. 25 Apr 2008
• The association between earlier marijuana use and subsequent academic achievement and health problems: a longitudinal study. 9 Apr 2008
• Big fish in big ponds: a multilevel analysis of test anxiety and achievement in special gifted classes. Apr 2008
• Achievement and maintenance of sustained response during the Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study continuation and maintenance therapy. Apr 2008
• Achieving diversity in nursing through multicontextual learning environments. Apr 2008
• Reciprocal effects between academic self-concept, self-esteem, achievement, and attainment over seven adolescent years: unidimensional and multidimensional perspectives of self-concept. Apr 2008
• Parental styles, conscientiousness, and academic performance in high school: a three-wave longitudinal study. Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Achievement'

Definition: Success in bringing an effort to the desired end; the degree or level of success attained in some specified area (esp. scholastic) or in general.

Descriptor UI: D000124

Alternative terms: Achievement; Achievements;

Tree Number: F01.658.059; F02.784.629.054;

History Note: 65(64)

Technical Notes: no qualif