同伴拒绝与早期青少年学业成绩的关系：同伴接纳、友谊支持的调节作用

采用同伴提名法获得215名早期青少年(5年级、7年级)的同伴地位(同伴拒绝、同伴接纳)分数,采用关系网络问卷(NRI)获得友谊支持分数,以学生期中考试的语文、数学、英语成绩的班内标准分的三科平均分作为个体学业成绩的指标,分析同伴拒绝与学业成绩的关系,以及同伴接纳和友谊支持对二者关系的调节作用及其年级和性别差异。结果发现:(1)女生的学业成绩高于男生,同伴拒绝、同伴接纳、友谊支持水平均不存在性别差异;(2)同伴拒绝均显著负向预测5、7年级学生的学业成绩,且这种预测作用不存在显著的性别差异;(3)在7年级,学生的同伴接纳可以调节同伴拒绝与学业成绩的关系,尽管高同伴接纳并不能补偿高同伴拒绝给学业成绩带来的消极影响,但它也是个体获得良好学业成绩的必要条件;在5年级和7年级,友谊支持都不能调节同伴拒绝与学业成绩的关系。     

羞怯对小学中高年级学生学业求助的影响：有调节的中介

采用问卷调查法,以936名小学生为被试,探究了羞怯对小学生学业求助的影响机制。结果发现：（1）羞怯显著正向预测小学生的执行性求助和回避性求助,显著负向预测工具性求助（老师/同学）;（2）自尊在羞怯与小学生学业求助各维度的关系中都起到了中介作用;（3）班级环境在羞怯和自尊,自尊和工具性求助（老师）的关系中起着调节作用。研究结果揭示了羞怯影响学业求助的作用机制,对教育者引导学生形成适应性学业求助具有启示意义。     

Psychology’s Adaptation to Academic Medical Settings

This introduction provides an overview of the papers that follow. Each paper contributes to the central theme of the issue, psychologists’ adaptation to the realities of academic medical settings. The specific approach of each paper to the shared theme of “adaptation” is described in some detail so the busy reader can go directly to the papers of greatest interest.     

The long-term effects of ability grouping in mathematics: A national investigation

The complexities of school tracking have resulted in patchy explanations of how it might affect students’ academic success. We aim to develop a comprehensive understanding of tracking by investigating its long-term relationships with student outcomes. Our study is informed by sociological and social psychological theoretical perspectives that explain how this school practice may wield its influence. We use panel data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS:88) for a comprehensive analysis of the associations between ability grouping in the eighth grade and subsequent social psychological and academic variables in the 10th and 12th grades, respectively. By covering three waves of data that monitor the mathematics progress of middle school youngsters as they go through high school, we present the durable relationships of tracking. Our method compares students in tracked and untracked schools, and further partitions these students into high and low ability groups. Our results reaffirm that tracking has persistent instructional benefits for all students. Yet, high-achieving students who are tracked in middle school may suffer considerable losses in self-concept that subsequently depress their achievement, and mathematics course-taking. Implications are for a broad range theory of tracking and for further empirical work on the viability of heterogeneously-grouped classes.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Sociological Association (ISA) XV World Congress of Sociology, Brisbane, Australia, July 7th through 13th, 2002     

Refining the experimental analysis of academic skills deficits: part II. Use of brief experimental analysis to evaluate reading fluency treatments

The technology of brief experimental analysis is just beginning to be used for identification of effective treatments for individual students who experience difficulty with oral reading fluency. In this study, the effect of a reading fluency treatment package was examined on easy and hard passages, and generalization was assessed on passages with high content overlap. The results suggest that the treatment package increased reading fluency for all 3 students. Effects were moderated by difficulty level for all 3 students. Results are discussed in terms of future refinements to the procedures, validation of the methods, and potential applications in clinical and school settings.     

Normative orientations of university faculty and doctoral students

Data from two national surveys of 4,000 faculty and doctoral students in chemistry, civil engineering, microbiology and sociology indicate that both faculty and students subscribe strongly to traditional norms but are more likely to see alternative counternorms enacted in their departments. They also show significant effects of departmental climate on normative orientations and suggest that many researchers express some degree of ambivalence about traditional norms. This paper was presented at the “Communicating Science Conference” held at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, October 1998. The paper is part of the Acadia Institute’s Project on Professional Values and Ethical Issues in the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers, cosponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, the Council of Graduate Schools and Sigma Xi. This work was supported by Grants No. 8913159 and 9222889 from the National Science Foundation. The following NSF components have provided funding to the NSF Ethics and Values Studies Program for support of the project: the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences; the Directorate for Biological Sciences; the Directorate for Engineering; the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and the Office of the Inspector General. Opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.     

成就目标定向在学业自我概念与学业成绩关系中的调节作用:基于内/外参照模型

为了探究成就目标定向在学业自我概念与学业成绩关系中的调节作用,采用语文学业自我概念量表、数学学业自我概念量表和成就目标定向量表对1515名初中生进行测查。结果显示：(1)初中生语文-数学学业自我概念建构过程符合内/外参照模型(Internal/External Frame of Reference Model, I/EM);(2)掌握回避对I/EM的维度比较路径存在调节作用,掌握回避得分越高越易受维度比较效应的影响,该现象对于语文成绩和数学成绩相对差的学生更明显;(3)成绩回避对I/EM的社会比较路径存在调节作用,成绩回避得分越高越不易受社会比较效应的影响,该现象对于语文成绩和数学成绩相对好的学生更明显。本研究揭示了持有不同成就目标定向的初中生在学业自我概念建构过程中的差异,对引导初中生建构积极学业自我概念具有重要启示。     

Stability in alexithymia levels: A longitudinal analysis on various emotional answers

Alexithymia refers to a specific disturbance in emotional processing that is manifested through difficulties in identifying and verbalizing feelings, and a tendency to focus and amplify the somatic sensations accompanying emotional arousal. The main purpose of the present study was to investigate the stability levels of alexithymia related to changes in emotional distress levels caused by university exams at two different times: after and during the exams. We carried out a 17-week follow-up on 36 university students, alexithymic features and self-reported emotional distress (anxiety, depression and somatic illness) were measured. Whereas emotional distress measures changed significantly during the follow-up period, the degree of alexithymia remained unchanged. We conclude therefore that alexithymia presents a constant trait in non-clinical samples, in contrast to anxiety and depression, which are state phenomena, influenced by stress levels.