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GOAL‐SETTING BEHAVIOUR, ANXIETY AND SCHOOL STREAMING
Author(s) -
VENESS THELMA
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1960.tb01517.x
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , grammar school , personality , developmental psychology , test anxiety , selection (genetic algorithm) , grammar , social psychology , applied psychology , mathematics education , linguistics , psychiatry , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence
S ummary . A particular pattern of goal‐setting behaviour in a level of aspiration test was found to occur more frequently in technical schools and in the “A” streams of modern schools than in the lower modern school streams and in grammar schools. In previous research, this pattern, of setting high goals and adhering to them rigidly, whatever the fluctuations in performance, has been associated with anxiety and similar personality traits. Matched pairs of these children and controls were compared for other possible indices of anxiety in the material of an investigation of which this is a part. The findings are discussed in relation to the possible effects of success and failure involved in secondary school selection.