The roles of cognitive and motivational predictors in explaining school achievement in elementary school

	The roles of cognitive and motivational predictors in explaining school achievement in elementary school
	Weber, Heike S.; Lu, Liping; Shi, Jiannong; Spinath, Frank M.
刊名	LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
	2013
卷号	25 页码:85-92
关键词	School achievement Intelligence Working memory Self-perceived ability Intrinsic value
ISSN号	1041-6080
通讯作者	Weber, HS (reprint author), Univ Saarland, Dept Psychol, Campus A1 3, D-66123 Saarbrucken, Germany.
产权排序	3
英文摘要	The present study investigated the roles of cognitive (working memory, intelligence) and motivational variables (self-perceived ability, intrinsic value) in explaining school achievement. The sample consisted of N = 320 German elementary school children in the fourth grade. Working memory and intelligence were assessed in the classroom. Questionnaires including the motivational items were answered at home. Teachers provided midterm and endterm grades for the domains of German and Math. Using structural equation modeling, our main results indicated that across domains, both cognitive and motivational predictors explained substantial amounts of specific variance in school grades. The findings are, however, to some degree domain-specific in that cognitive variables were stronger predictors of Math (COG: beta = .59; MOT: beta = .41), whereas for German, motivational influences turned out to be better predictors (COG: beta = .34; MOT: beta = .67). Together, cognitive ability (including both WM and intelligence) and motivation (including self-perceived ability and intrinsic value) explained 75% and 71% of the variance in children's German and Math grades, respectively. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
学科主题	Cognitive psychology,Personality psychology
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
类目[WOS]	Psychology, Educational
研究领域[WOS]	Psychology
关键词[WOS]	ACADEMIC SELF-CONCEPT ; EXPECTANCY-VALUE THEORY ; WORKING-MEMORY ; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION ; PERCEIVED ABILITY ; JOB-PERFORMANCE ; TASK VALUES ; CHILDREN ; INTELLIGENCE ; GRADES
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000319646400010
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/10840]
专题	心理研究所_认知与发展心理学研究室
作者单位	Weber, HS (reprint author), Univ Saarland, Dept Psychol, Campus A1 3, D-66123 Saarbrucken, Germany.
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Weber, Heike S.,Lu, Liping,Shi, Jiannong,et al. The roles of cognitive and motivational predictors in explaining school achievement in elementary school[J]. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES,2013,25:85-92.
APA	Weber, Heike S.,Lu, Liping,Shi, Jiannong,&Spinath, Frank M..(2013).The roles of cognitive and motivational predictors in explaining school achievement in elementary school.LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES,25,85-92.
MLA	Weber, Heike S.,et al."The roles of cognitive and motivational predictors in explaining school achievement in elementary school".LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 25(2013):85-92.