Sentences with phrase «task persistence»

Analyzing longitudinal datasets (N = 2,926 and N = 1,255) of African American and Latino American college students Brannon's research demonstrates that such efforts to affirm identity is related to benefits among members of negatively stereotyped groups including better problem solving, increased task persistence, higher GPAs, and more positive health and well - being outcomes.

Ignoring pain rather than allowing it to interfere with the task at hand, known as task persistence, was the only coping strategy employed by whites more than blacks.

In this 2014 study looking at food addiction, in 233 participants, they did find a relationship between food addiction and negative mood i.e. there was: «an inclination toward behaving irrationally while experiencing negative mood states (Negative Urgency) and low levels of task persistence (lack of Perseverance)»

Similarly, Evans et al. (2001) have shown that children who report that they have a place to go to where they can be alone show better task persistence and fewer behavioural problems than children who do not, even with the same crowding levels.

Research also supports an explicit focus on building social and behavioral skills; increased task persistence and self - control often translate into improved academic performance.

Learning how to interact well with peers and learning general approaches toward learning such as task persistence are important to later school success, over and above the effects of specific pre-academic skills.

Children who attend these well - supervised afterschool programs display better work habits, task persistence, social skills, pro-social behaviors, academic performance, and less aggressive behavior at the end of the school year.

In the ECLS - K, we use the approaches to learning scale, which is based on teacher ratings of students» attentiveness, task persistence, and eagerness to learn on a four - point scale.

Students with executive functioning or motor planning issues may need ongoing teacher support or scaffolding for using to - do lists if they struggle with memory, initiation, task persistence or sequencing.

Students who attended regularly for two years showed improvements in work habits, task persistence, and social skills (such as the ability to refrain from aggressive behavior).

Anger / frustration, task persistence, and conduct problems in childhood: a behavioral genetic analysis

One measurement approach is time spent on a frustrating behavioral task (i.e., task persistence).

Four characteristics were assessed: task persistence, emotional reactivity, task orientation, and social inhibition.

Social inhibition and task persistence were not related to maternal smoking.

At age 5, eight temperamental characteristics were assessed: negative emotionality, inhibition, activity level, task persistence (scored in nonpersistent direction), biological irregularity, emotional intensity, stimulation threshold, the tendency to be slow to adapt to change and mood.

The following variables contained on this survey were used in the analysis: task orientation; task persistence; inhibition; and emotional reactivity.