The purpose of this study was to determine whether anthropometric, physical, psychological, and skill test results could be used to discriminate between male junior volleyball players of varying ability. A total of 66 elite and nonelite male Estonian volleyball players aged 16–17 years were measured for anthropometric and physical variables and sport-specific skills. In addition, the players’ p...

Using data from 1,184 women in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, we estimated associations between education and Ryff's environmental mastery scale scores at age 52. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated two subscales, here termed mastery skills and mastery accomplishments. Low education was associated with higher mastery skills. This was partly explained by childhood socioeco...

Abstract In this paper, we present a meta-analysis of the motivational and performance effects experimentally induced achievement goals moderating goal standard framing ; comprising 90 studies which provided 235 effect sizes (11,247 participants). The findings show that, relative to performance-approach performance-avoidance no-goals, mastery-approach enhanced performance, but not motivation. W...

INTRODUCTION Care coordination (CC) is an important fulcrum for pursuing a range of health care goals. Current research and policy analyses have focused on aggregated data rather than on understanding what happens within individual cases. At the case level, CC emerges as a complex network of communications among providers over time, crossing and recrossing many organizational boundaries. Micro-...

Current localizationpractices suffer fromanarrowandstaticvisionofculture resulting in usability problems for IT product and design. To address this problem, this article compares user localization efforts of mobile messaging technology in two different cultural contexts with a new methodology of cultural usability. It calls for expanding thescopeof localizationpracticesand linkinguser localizat...

Master speakers In Zinacantán, a Tzotzil [Mayan] speaking community in highland Chiapas, Mexico, there are various kinds of specialists in talk, many of whose roles are lexically labeled. Consider, for example the j`ilol, ‘curer, lit., seer’ who cures (and occasionally gives) illness by means of ritual offerings and prayer; the jmeltzanej-k’op, ‘dispute settler, lit., maker of words’ who helps ...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents have experienced limitations in their everyday activities. Consequently, mental health has become an area of concern. However, there been much less a focus on factors and mechanisms contributing how they approached various academic activities during pandemic. The current study fills this gap by investigating associations between adolescents’ competence ...

This article examines the classroom learning environment in relation to achievement goal theory of motivation. Classroom structures are described in terms of how they make different types of achievement goals salient and as a consequence elicit qualitatively different patterns of motivation. Task, evaluation and recognition, and authority dimensions of classrooms are presented as examples of st...

Intelligent tutoring Systems (ITSs) adapt content and activities with the goals of being both effective and efficient instructional environments. They have goals for students to be challenged and guided in an optimal way--without being too overwhelmed with difficult material or too bored with easy or repetitive material. We propose a particular definition of the zone of proximal development (ZP...