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Incentivizing education: Seeing schoolwork as an investment, not a chore.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Destin, Mesmin Oyserman, Daphna |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | 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). |
| Starting Page | 846 |
| Ending Page | 849 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/89933/destin__oyserman__2010.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/783/docs/destin__oyserman__2010.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://dornsife.usc.edu/assets/sites/783/docs/destin__oyserman__2010.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.psychology.northwestern.edu/documents/destin-education.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 20824201v1 |
| Volume Number | 46 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of experimental social psychology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Chore Grade Sense of identity (observable entity) Sports |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
