Accentuate the Positive: The Relationship between Positive Explanatory Style and Academic Achievement of Prospective Elementary Teachers

Autor/in	Boyer, Wanda
Titel	Accentuate the Positive: The Relationship between Positive Explanatory Style and Academic Achievement of Prospective Elementary Teachers
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 21 (2006) 1, S.53 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-8543
Schlagwörter	Early Childhood Education; Elementary School Teachers; Females; Teaching Methods; Positive Reinforcement; Negative Reinforcement; Teacher Response; Stress Management; Speech Skills; Job Performance; Academic Achievement; Student Motivation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Weibliches Geschlecht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Negative Verstärkung; Lehrerkommentar; Stressmanagement; Stressbewältigung; Mündliche Leistung; Sprachfertigkeit; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Schulleistung; Schulische Motivation
Abstract	This research examines 480 current event-explanation units using the CAVE technique (Schulman, Castellon, & Seligman, 1989) to note the relationship between positive and negative explanatory style and achievement of prospective early childhood and upper elementary female teachers. This study found a significant positive relationship between explanatory style for positive events and academic performance in stressful scenarios. Surprisingly, optimism and pessimism in one's explanatory style for negative events was found to have no significant relationship to academic performance. An important implication of these findings is that the quality of our attributions for positive events, not negative events, helps to sustain performance levels in demanding situations. Interventions for enhancing explanatory style therefore should focus on the positive. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10