Children's over- and underestimation of academic competence: a longitudinal study of gender differences, depression, and anxiety
| Autor: | Joan M. Martin, A. D. Seroczynski, Lachlan Peeke, Jonathan Fier, David A. Cole |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Longitudinal study Self-Assessment Time Factors media_common.quotation_subject education Self-concept Academic achievement Anxiety Education Developmental psychology Child Development Sex Factors Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Child Competence (human resources) media_common Motivation Depression Age Factors medicine.disease Achievement Causality El Niño Feeling Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Linear Models Female medicine.symptom Psychology Anxiety disorder |
| Zdroj: | Child development. 70(2) |
| ISSN: | 0009-3920 |
| Popis: | A total of 807 third and sixth graders completed questionnaires about their academic competence, feelings of depression, and symptoms of anxiety, every 6 months for 3 years. Teachers provided objective measures of academic competence. Compared to teachers' ratings, boys overestimated and girls underestimated their academic competence. Gender differences first emerged in fourth or fifth grade and increased through eighth grade. Symptoms of depression and anxiety were negatively associated with academic overestimation. Furthermore, controlling for depression and anxiety eliminated most of the gender differences in academic over- and underestimation. Finally, self-reported depression and anxiety predicted changes in the tendency to overestimate academic competence over time. Evidence of the reverse relation was much weaker. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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