Academic risk factors and deficits of learned hopelessness: A longitudinal study of Hong Kong secondary school students

Academic risk factors and deficits of learned hopelessness: A longitudinal study of Hong Kong secondary school students

• Aua, Raymond C. P. Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong
• Watkins, David A. Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong
• Hattie, John A. C. University of Auckland, New Zealand

Educational Psychology, 30(2), 125-138, 2010

Routledge

2010

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Preschoolers Addition Number Words Part-Whole Concepts Motivation Performance Strategies Scale Psychology, Educational

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

The aim of the present study is to explore a causal model of academic achievement and learning-related personal variables by testing the nature of relationships between learned hopelessness, its risk factors and hopelessness deficits as proposed in major theories in this area. The model investigates affective-motivational characteristics of students such as prior academic failures, academic attributional style, self-efficacy, thoughts about intelligence, school values, learned hopelessness, self-esteem, learning strategy effectiveness and academic achievement, and the relationships among them. A sample of 741 Hong Kong secondary students completed a series of scales over a school year. As expected, prior achievement was the best predictor of subsequent achievement. The next best predictors were perceived learning difficulties and learned hopelessness. This in turn leads to disengagement from schooling and students taking on most responsibility for their failing. Recommendations for teachers and schools to ameliorate these beliefs may redress the move towards hopelessness.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 01443410

• 10.1080/01443410903476400

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2010-11-28