Few academic issues are of greater concern to teachers, parents, and school administrators than the academic motivation of the adolescents in their care. There

A discussion of the academic motivation of adolescents. It addresses: self-efficacy and adolescents' motivation; situating motivation in sociocultural contexts;

Personality and Individual Differences is a state-of-the-art undergraduate textbook that covers the salient and recent literature on personality, intellectual a

"This approach is designed for working with students in grades 6-8. It is based on research that focuses on the relationship between school failure and the lack

The introduction of the psychological construct of self-efficacy is widely acknowledged as one of the most important developments in the history of psychology.