Malte Jansen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that educational expectations are a key predictor of educational attainment and that during adolescence, friends increasingly function as significant others and can affect the development of these expectations.

TL;DR: The structure of academic self-concept (ASC) is assumed to be multidimensional and hierarchical as discussed by the authors, and the most central models depicting the structure of ASC: a highe...

TL;DR: This article investigated how the educational placement in special education schools or regular schools is related to the achievement motivation of students with special educational needs (SEN), and examined whether the classroom social environment (i.e., class-average achievement and social support) explains potential placement differences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relative effects of upward and downward dimensional comparisons as well as their net effect on self-concepts in German and mathematics, and found that downward-dimensional comparisons resulted in higher selfconcepts, whereas upward-dimensions led to lower selfconcept.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined differences in academic self-concept, scholarly interests, learning motivation, and achievement motivation between those being retained in the 6th grade (n = 61) and those of the same age being promoted annually.