ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2003, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (6): 663-667.

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Relations Between Adults' Criticism / Praise And Children's Responsive Patterns

Zhao Jingxin,Wang Meifang   

  1. Department of Psychology, School of Educational Science, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014
  • Received:2003-05-18 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2003-11-15 Published:2003-11-15
  • Contact: Wang Meifang

Abstract: This paper reviewed the recent studies on the relations between adults' criticism/praise and children's responsive patterns after briefly introducing the types of criticism/praise. The research findings showed that person criticism/praise could lead children to display helplessness responses, and process criticism/praise could result in children’s mastery-oriented responses. The mechanism through which adults' criticism/praise influenced children’s responses was empirically found that different types of criticism/praise could foster children’s different theory of intelligence, achievement goal and the attribution for performance, and then result in different responsive patterns. It was also suggested that there were some key issues that need to be further explored in the future

Key words: criticism/praise, helplessness response, mastery-oriented response

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