Sentences with phrase «important psychological mechanism»
Social psychologist Gene Burnstein of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, calls the work «a very nice demonstration of an important psychological mechanism.»
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Importantly, its applications could even go beyond the educational context, targeting psychological mechanisms that play an important role in many kinds of goal - directed activities:
Children raised in families that experience multiple transitions do not consistently have higher levels of behavioral problems or lower test scores than do children in family types with one or fewer transitions, even when only child characteristics are controlled... Finally, maternal psychological well - being is shown to be an important mechanism by which family structure affects behavioral outcomes, but not cognitive ones.»
If such bidirectional associations can be documented, this may take us an important step towards delineating mechanisms for the development and aggravation of psychological difficulties.