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Self-Verification as a Mediator of Mothers’ Self-Fulfilling Effects on Adolescents’ Educational Attainment
- Source :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 37:587-600
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2011.
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Abstract
- This research examined whether self-verification acts as a general mediational process of self-fulfilling prophecies. The authors tested this hypothesis by examining whether self-verification processes mediated self-fulfilling prophecy effects within a different context and with a different belief and a different outcome than has been used in prior research. Results of longitudinal data obtained from mothers and their adolescents ( N = 332) indicated that mothers’ beliefs about their adolescents’ educational outcomes had a significant indirect effect on adolescents’ academic attainment through adolescents’ educational aspirations. This effect, observed over a 6-year span, provided evidence that mothers’ self-fulfilling effects occurred, in part, because mothers’ false beliefs influenced their adolescents’ own educational aspirations, which adolescents then self-verified through their educational attainment. The theoretical and applied implications of these findings are discussed.
- Subjects :
- Male
Adolescent
Social Psychology
Longitudinal data
Extramural
Adolescent psychology
Psychology, Adolescent
Mothers
Context (language use)
Article
Mother-Child Relations
Educational attainment
Developmental psychology
Psychological Theory
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Educational Status
Humans
Regression Analysis
Female
Longitudinal Studies
Psychology
Social psychology
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15527433 and 01461672
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....531819f5075a524730ac2dee3b39b33b