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Social Motivation: Understanding Children's School Adjustment » (New Edition)

Authors: Jaana Juvonen (Editor), Kathryn R. Wentzel (Editor), Carolyn Shantz
ISBN-13: 9780521564427, ISBN-10: 0521564425
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1996
Edition: New Edition

Social Motivation examines the essential interaction between social functioning and success at school.

	Contributors
	Preface
	Foreword
1	Introduction: New perspectives on motivation at school	1
2	Teacher and classmate influences on scholastic motivation, self-esteem, and level of voice in adolescents	11
3	Self-presentation tactics promoting teacher and peer approval: The function of excuses and other clever explanations	43
4	Social self-discrepancy: A theory relating peer relations problems and school maladjustment	66
5	Motivational approaches to aggression within the context of peer relationships	98
6	Motivational opportunities and obstacles associated with social responsibility and caring behavior in school contexts	126
7	Modeling and self-efficacy influences on children's development of self-regulation	154
8	Social motivation: Goals and social-cognitive processes. A comment	181
9	Interpersonal relationships in the school environment and children's early school adjustment: The role of teachers and peers	199
10	Social goals and social relationships as motivators of school adjustment	226
11	Friends' influence on school adjustment: A motivational analysis	248
12	Peer networks and students' classroom engagement during childhood and adolescence	279
13	Academic failure and school dropout: The influence of peers	313
14	What's "emotional" about social motivation? A comment	346
	Author index	361
	Subject index	371