Drawing from contemporary social cognitive theories of achievement motivation, the relationship of personal theories of achievement (ego and task theory) with perceived ability and reported satisfaction with school and sport was examined. The cross-domain generality of these relationships in these contexts, in the case of a representative sample of adolescents between 11 and 15 years of age (N ...

We present a formal model for studying fashion trends, in terms of three parameters of fashionable items: (1) their innate utility; (2) individual boredom associated with repeated usage of an item; and (3) social influences associated with the preferences from other people. While there are several works that emphasize the effect of social influence in understanding fashion trends, in this paper...

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Control-value theory (CVT) posits that cognitive appraisals and emotions govern motivation learning in achievement settings. Within this framework, we used latent profile analysis to identify multifaceted profiles involving academic control value (boredom, anxiety, enjoyment). Three were identified comprised co-occurring at the start of a two-semester online university course: high control-enjo...

      In recent years, due to the significant demographic changes and increasing young population in the country, including Kurdistan, there was too much demand for the labor, and it causes unemployed persons. In this study, the unemployment rate in Kurdistan province has been studied with emphasis on the youth. The main question was the trend of unemployment rate of the young population? Secon...

Abstract This article reports on a two-step investigation of foreign language learning boredom amongst Chinese university non-English-major EFL students and English teachers. In Study 1, 22 11 teachers were interviewed 659 responded to an open questionnaire, recalling describing their experiences perceptions in English. The data allowed multidimensional conceptualization Foreign Language Learni...