1. Academic identity formation and motivation among ethnic minority adolescents: the role of the "self" between internal and external perceptions of identity.
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Matthews JS, Banerjee M, and Lauermann F
- Subjects
- Achievement, Adolescent, Black or African American ethnology, Child, Female, Hispanic or Latino ethnology, Humans, Learning, Male, New York City ethnology, Social Values, Black or African American psychology, Hispanic or Latino psychology, Self Efficacy, Social Identification
- Abstract
Identity is often studied as a motivational construct within research on adolescent development and education. However, differential dimensions of identity, as a set of internal values versus external perceptions of social belonging, may relate to motivation in distinct ways. Utilizing a sample of 600 African American and Latino adolescents (43% female; mean age = 13.9), the present study examines whether self-regulated learning (SRL) mediates two distinct dimensions of academic identity (i.e., value and belonging) and mastery orientation. This study also examines whether self-efficacy moderates the mediating role of SRL between identity and mastery. Results show evidence for moderated mediation between SRL and academic self-efficacy. Self-regulated learning played its strongest mediating role between belonging and mastery and for low-efficacy students specifically., (© 2014 The Authors. Child Development © 2014 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.)
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- 2014
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