Identity-Based Motivation: Implications for Intervention
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Identity-based motivation: Implications for intervention.
Children want to succeed academically and attend college, but their actual attainment often lags behind; some groups (e.g., boys, low-income children) are particularly likely to experience this gap. Social structural factors matter, influencing this gap in part by affecting children's perceptions of what is possible for them and people like them in the future. Interventions that focus on this m...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Counseling Psychologist
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0011-0000,1552-3861
DOI: 10.1177/0011000010374775