Social Motivation
Subtitle: Understanding Children's School Adjustment (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development)
Contributors: Bernard Weiner (Foreword); Jaana Juvonen (Editor); Kathryn R. Wentzel (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780521473248
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; Educational Psychology; Psychology Of Adjustment; Applied Psychology; Developmental Psychology; Social desirability in adolesc; Education / Teaching; Psychology; Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent; Education : Educational Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Child Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Social Psychology; Social desirability in childre; Achievement motivation in adol; Student adjustment; Achievement motivation in adolescence; Achievement motivation in chil; Achievement motivation in children
First sentence: The classroom setting represents not only an educational arena but a powerful social context in which the psychological adjustment of children and adolesents can be affected.