Adolescents' individual differences in relation to their reported acrion control
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Aug 4, 2015
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Action control Adolescence Individual differences
Abstract
This study aimed at delimiting the degree in which factors, such as age, gender and SES differentiate action control reports during adolescence. A total of 390 students of 11, 13, 15, 17 and 22 years of age participated in the study. The students were from high-class and middle-class population. The participants were asked to respond to the Action Control Scale, ACS-90 (Kulil, 1994b) tapping the three constituents of action orientation: a) disengagement from failure, b) initiative in acting, and c) persistence during action. To find out if there are any differences in students’ reports of the three aspects of action orientation as a function of their age, gender and SES, a series of MANOVA was performed on the data. The main effect of age was found to be significant on initiative in acting and persistence during action. Finally, gender and SES proved to be significant individual differences factors on persistence during action.
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Παπαντωνίου Γ. (2015). Adolescents’ individual differences in relation to their reported acrion control. Journal of Research in Education and Training, 3, 111–125. https://doi.org/10.12681/jret.969
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