Social comparison processes and academic achievement: the dependence of the development of self-evaluations on friends’ performance
| Authors: | Guay, Frédéric; Boivin, Michel; Hodges, Ernest V.E. |
| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to examine the role of social comparison processes in children's self-evaluations. Children's aptitudes to gauge their self-evaluations of their abilities in school activities (i.e., perceived academic competence) on the basis of their actual performance depended on how well their reciprocated friends performed academically. Self-evaluations of performance were not affected when the comparison was based on levels of nonreciprocated friends' achievement. |
| Document Type: | Article de recherche |
| Issue Date: | 1 September 1999 |
| Open Access Date: | 10 May 2017 |
| Document version: | AM |
| Permalink: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/14009 |
| This document was published in: | Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 91 (3), 564–568 (1999) https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.91.3.564 American Psychological Association |
| Alternative version: | 10.1037/0022-0663.91.3.564 |
| Collection: | Articles publiés dans des revues avec comité de lecture |
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