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Preliminary validation in Spanish of a scale designed to measure motivation in physical education classes: the Perceived Locus of Causality (PLOC) Scale.

29 Apr 2009 The purpose of this paper was to validate the Spanish version of the Perceived Locus of Causality Scale (PLOC; Goudas, Biddle, & Fox, 1994). To achieve this, two studies with samples of 1535 and 400 physical education students, of ages 12 to 17 ...
rec_pub_19476244-preliminary-validation-spanish-scale-designed-measure-motivation.htm


Organizational leadership: motives and behaviors of leaders in current organizations.

29 Apr 2009 Organizational leadership is fundamental for the working and development of current organizations. It helps members of an organization to face transcendental challenges. One of the fundamental aspects of leaders is their personal characteristics and ...
rec_pub_19476239-organizational-leadership-motives-behaviors-leaders-current.htm


Need for cognition, task difficulty, and the formation of performance expectancies.

29 Apr 2009 In the present article, the authors analyze how performance expectancies are generated and how they affect actual performance. The authors predicted that task difficulty would affect performance expectancies only when cognitive motivation (i.e., ...
rec_pub_19379036-need-cognition-task-difficulty-formation-performance-expectancies.htm


The effect of stereotype threat on the solving of quantitative GRE problems: a mere effort interpretation.

28 Apr 2009 The mere effort account argues that stereotype threat motivates participants to want to perform well, which potentiates prepotent responses. If the prepotent response is correct, performance is facilitated. If incorrect and participants do not know, ...
rec_pub_19407004-the-effect-stereotype-threat-solving-quantitative-gre-problems-mere.htm


[Self-harm and sports--case reports]

28 Apr 2009
rec_pub_19415092-self-harm-sports-case-reports.htm


Factors affecting scholastic performances of adolescents.

21 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVE: The present study aims at recognizing the social influence, study habits and health factors affecting scholastic performances of adolescents and to compare these factors among the adolescents between two categories of school. METHODS: A ...
rec_pub_19390794-factors-affecting-scholastic-performances-adolescents.htm


Physicians as outliers.

19 Apr 2009
rec_pub_19371833-physicians-outliers.htm


Errors in multi-digit arithmetic and behavioral inattention in children with math difficulties.

18 Apr 2009 Errors in written multi-digit computation were investigated in children with math difficulties. Third- and fourth-grade children (n = 291) with coexisting math and reading difficulties, math difficulties, reading difficulties, or no learning ...
rec_pub_19380494-errors-multi-digit-arithmetic-behavioral-inattention-children-math.htm


Recursive processes in self-affirmation: intervening to close the minority achievement gap.

15 Apr 2009 A 2-year follow-up of a randomized field experiment previously reported in Science is presented. A subtle intervention to lessen minority students' psychological threat related to being negatively stereotyped in school was tested in an experiment ...
rec_pub_19372432-recursive-processes-self-affirmation-intervening-close-minority.htm


Autonomic activity and somatic symptoms in response to success vs. failure on a cognitive task: a comparison of chronic abdominal pain patients and well children.

13 Apr 2009 OBJECTIVES: To compare autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity and somatic symptoms in chronic abdominal pain (CAP) patients and well children during (a) resting baseline, (b) training in a cognitive task, and (c) random assignment to success vs. ...
rec_pub_19686879-autonomic-activity-somatic-symptoms-response-success-vs-failure.htm

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