Mastery Motivation in Early Childhood: Development, Measurement and Social Processes (Psychology Revivals) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138683949 ISBN 13: 9781138683945

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

All children possess a motive to ‘master’ the various tasks and problems that they face. Without mastery motivation, it is doubtful whether children would make progress in cognitive, social communicative and other domains. Although all children possess this motivation, it will vary according to inherited dispositions and to environmental experiences. This makes mastery motivation a key factor in understanding later developmental and educational achievement.

Concentrating on pre-school children, this volume, originally published in 1993, brought together current research work and thinking concerned with mastery motivation at the time. New ideas are presented about the way mastery is related to other developmental processes such as self-concepts and attention. There are discussions and findings about innovations in the methods of assessing mastery. Another important theme present in this volume, is the way in which features of social interaction, attachment and the environment influence the development of mastery motivation.

With a broad range of international contributors, this title will still be of interest to developmental psychologists and educationalists, and advance students in these fields.

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David J. Messer

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1138683949
• ISBN 13: 9781138683945
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
• Herausgeber: Messer David J.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar