Overachievement and coping strategies in adolescent males
作者:
Alexandra Parsons,
Erica Frydenberg,
Charles Poole,
期刊:
British Journal of Educational Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 66,
issue 1
页码: 109-114
ISSN:0007-0998
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8279.1996.tb01180.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
How to assist young people to achieve to their potential is a universal concern of educators. The relationship between achievement above that expected on the basis of IQ alone (often referred to as overachievement) in school assessment and preferred coping style, as assessed by the Adolescent Coping Scale (ACS, Frydenberg&Lewis, 1993a), was investigated in a group of 374 boys in Grades 9, 10 and 11 at an independent boys’ school in metropolitan Melbourne. Separate partial correlation analyses for each of the three year levels showed that three of the coping strategies, Work and Achieve, Solve the Problem, and Social Support positively correlated with overachievement at all three levels. Other subscales also correlated significantly at one or other of the grade levels.It was concluded that overachievement may be better regarded as approaching one's full potential by the use of optimal coping strategies and avoidance of alternative responses to stress which appear to be non‐product
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