| Incentivizing education: Seeing schoolwork as an investment, not a chore. | |
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PMID: 20824201 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Most American children expect to attend college but because they do not necessarily spend much time on schoolwork, they may fail to reach their imagined "college-bound" future self. The proposed identity-based motivation model helps explain why this gap occurs: Imagined "college-bound" identities cue school-focused behavior if they are salient and feel relevant to current choice options, not otherwise. Two studies with predominantly low-income and African American middle school students support this prediction. Almost all of the students expect to attend college, but only half describe education-dependent (e.g., law, medicine) adult identities. Having education-dependent rather than education-independent adult identities (e.g., sports, entertainment) predicts better grades over time, controlling for prior grade point average (Study 1). To demonstrate causality, salience of education-dependent versus education-independent adult identities was experimentally manipulated. Children who considered education-dependent adult identities (vs. education-independent ones) were eight times more likely to complete a take-home extra credit assignment (Study 2). |
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Mesmin Destin; Daphna Oyserman |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: Journal of experimental social psychology Volume: 46 ISSN: 0022-1031 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2010 Sep |
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Created Date: 2010-9-8 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0045332 Medline TA: J Exp Soc Psychol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 846-849 Citation Subset: - |
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University of Michigan. |
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R01 MH058299-01A2//NIMH NIH HHS |
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