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Motivational Processes Involved In Academic Help Seeking And Help Avoidance, Gwen Catherine Marchand
Motivational Processes Involved In Academic Help Seeking And Help Avoidance, Gwen Catherine Marchand
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During middle childhood, help seeking and avoidance are two ways children deal with academic problems. For this study, the dominant view of help seeking as a strategy of self-regulated learning was elaborated to consider it a way of coping framed within the Self-System Model of Motivational Development. This framework allows for the consideration of (1) the opposite of help seeking (help avoidance) as a motivated way of coping, (2) the central role of teachers, and (3) the operation of multiple self-system processes in shaping students' coping behaviors.
Self-report, teacher-report, and school record data from 765 3rd through 61 h grade …