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Motivational, Cognitive, and Dispositional Antecedents of Academic Help Seeking

Sun, April 10, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level One, Room 150 B

Session Type: Symposium

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Although academic help seeking has received much attention from researchers as an important self-regulatory strategy, students avoid help seeking or ask for non-adaptive help for various reasons. Thus, identification of individual factors associated with academic help seeking has important educational implications. The symposium presents four studies investigating non-overlapping sets of motivational (social and academic goals), cognitive (the ability to monitor one’s one competence and gauge the need for help), and dispositional (perfectionism tendencies) antecedents to help seeking that together enhance our understanding of psychological dynamics around academic help seeking among students in elementary, middle, and high school.

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