28, 370400. In academic settings, overachievers are frequently identified as students who perform above and beyond the standards expected of their age level. Principally, an individuals experience, emotion, and behavior in daily, specific events reflect the dynamic regulation process inherent in identity (Kerpelman et al., 1997). Even though we told them well play a game to prevent them from being too nervous at the beginning of the activity, they still tended to treat it as an exam or a learning activity. Meanwhile, they need to deal with the evaluation from their imagined teachers, parents, and peers in the present self-meaningsystem (A), where their good student position is disturbed, which engenders tension and withdrawal. Their abilities are here being defined through comparison. Specifically, two research questions will be explored in the research: 1. Ls performance at home and at school is also related to learning. How to Help High-Achieving Students Manage Stress - CORP-MAT1 (TEACH) High Achiever: How a UCLA Law Fellowship Helped One Student Live Her Thus, this part of interview aimed to understand self-definition from different perspectives. 41, 954969. Our studys students are situated in, and reflect, their larger social and cultural backgrounds, which, in turn, are underpinned by the interactive processes of all these factors. 42, 2630. By contrast, L also showed a dialogue with imagined others (mainly teachers) in the activity and the interviews. It is the term Erikson (1968) adopted, in his theory of identity development, to reflect what seems possible for oneself in a particular historical, cultural, and sociological time period. J bit her lips all the time and blushed. It seems that he is smarter than me. Schools receive growth credit for keeping top students performing at highly proficient levels. K: The person who can do nothing and has the lowest score. My mother is always dissatisfied with me. Pressure to be High Achievers Impacts Mental Health of Teen Girls Even Xiao Song can do it. Strong scholars, high scores, and great schools: academic achievement is our passion. Say "No" to Drugs - John "Kinderman" Taylor. Essentials of TAT and other storytelling assessment. Exploring the source of well-being for high achiever students S.O.S. Thus, the analysis in this step was carried out as a follow-up to the analysis of the interview and the projection test to understand students perception of ambiguous interactive situations and situations that lead to negative results. R: What do you worry the most in the game? Psychol. Behav. Emot. The path to stimulate language disadvantaged children in their learning engagement-on the perspective of action and its rhythms. Dev. Shots doi: 10.1177/0959354303136001, Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A., van Geert, P., Bosma, H., and Kunnen, S. (2008). When experimenter gave a sign of changing the picture, K bent over and buried his face in his hands. A possible selves intervention to enhance school involvement. Two high-achieving students who exhibit the characteristics of the inhibition phenomenon are compared with another high-achieving student who appears not to be inhibited, using a multilevel and comprehensive analysis that integrates a number of aspects, such as the students emotional experience of the activities in relation to which the inhibition phenomenon occurs, their meaning-making regarding the activities, and their reflections on their daily school lives. If it was helpful in gaining knowledge or in improving their scores, it was an interesting activity. Moreover, the study further establishes a theory that better explains the phenomenon. High achievers are ambitious, goal-focused, self-disciplined individuals, who are driven by a strong personal desire to accomplish meaningful, important goals. R: What are you thinking when you feel nervous? . L thinks more about the problem itself, and, if he cannot solve it, he will ask for help. R: What kind of person do you want to be the most? Dynamic systems theories in Handbook of child psychology. New York, NY: Norton. First, the activity was regarded as a learning or examination task. Ego identity: A handbook for psychosocial research. Res. From the perspective of the regulation process of self-identity, the identity of good student of the students susceptible to inhibition coincides more with the concept of ought self proposed by Higgins (1996). Thus, flexible and process-oriented identity facilitated his involvement in the activities, enabling a richer, more open self-construction process. /L: Quite loveable, just that the voice is a bit small. Thus, the self-identity of these two students was found to be narrow and result-oriented; it was easy for them to impose excessive future-oriented self-demands, thus bringing pressure to themselves in the moment. After all, a studys participants are embedded in their social contexts, and this situatedness of each individual is taken into consideration. In fact, the students and teachers at the migrant schools are often familiar with such folklore, games, and cultural activities as they are from these traditional cultural backgrounds. These particular images were chosen because their themes would be familiar to the students and so would likely elicit stories more easily. Based on N = 1215 high school students' grades on the paper (57% girls; M age = 17.5, SD = 0.80), high and low achievers (with and without considering prior achievement) were compared regarding multiple SRL components of a whole SRL cycle using the Mann-Whitney Utest: High achievers, irrespective of their prior achievement, showed lower work avo. Therefore, in this mode of dialogue, his behavior has specific guidelines and requirements, is situational, and is more flexible. The protocol was approved by the Academic Ethics Committee of Shanghai Normal University. Gifted Students and High Achieving Students - Oak Crest Academy Internalization and externalization are the bidirectional construction processes that actualize the generalizing and contextualizing functions. The person he does not want to be the most is a person who does not finish his homework, and a person who does not write Chinese characters well. Ls desirable self is also related to learning, but it does not show obvious characteristics of comparing oneself with others, but, rather, of individual performance in respect of specific things. Good performance means getting others recognition, while bad performance means a setback for the relationship with important others. Res. Gifted students, however, are very concerned about fairness not only regarding themselves and peers but also on a much larger scale. More than 100,000 students in Arizona, the majority of whom come from low-income backgrounds, will receive JA programs this year, thanks to the 9,500 volunteer mentors who donate their time to empower our youth. In the abductive logic, theory and evidence are circularly bonded within an open-ended cycle. doi: 10.1007/s12124-015-9307-5, PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar, Dweck, C. S. (1986). Knowing the difference between a child who is bright and one who is truly a gifted learner. One day, the two brothers got up and looked for food. They perceive the expectations from their parents, teachers, and classmates in the activities, and they feel anxious and stressed when those expectations differ greatly from the current state. 49, 360370. Based on previous observations regarding what we call the inhibition phenomenon of high-achieving students, wherein otherwise successful students show unexpectedly poor performances in collective activities of relatively unfamiliar forms, the present research analyzes the self-identity of such students and explores the underlying mechanisms that result in this inhibition phenomenon. For CEOs, the rate is estimated to be from double the national level of 20% to as high as 50% (Barnard, 2010, Burguieres, 2008). In order to obtain as much comprehensive information as possible about the students responses, one of the researchers asked questions for the most part, the other acted as an observer, and both researchers recorded the students reactions for later analysis. His learner identity requires him to pursue personal progress, which further drives him to be involved in the activity. Furthermore, formation of ought self is also related to the current general anxiety experienced by the whole society. Self-evaluation and reflection come into existence when individuals establish relations and carry out interactions with others. 4. category Dstudents with shorter reaction times and higher or equal story structure scores to the average scores of the other two students (3 students). doi: 10.1177/1354067X13515934, Eysenck, M. W., and Calvo, M. G. (1992). J. Pers. (1999). In addition, models of self-esteem and self-efficacy (Rosenberg, 1965; Bandura, 1982; Lane et al., 2004) suggest that low efficacy and self-esteem in related tasks in group activities will influence these students performances. PDF Characteristics of High-Achieving Students and the Effectiveness - ed Xiao Ming ________. They subconsciously compare themselves with others, judge themselves from others views, and worry about others negative comments. Regrettablybut consistent with previous . J: Harder one, so that nobody can finish, and I will not be that nervous. Based on Eriksons theoretical formulation of identity, many researchers have trained their focus on the identity process taking place in the interaction between the individual and his/her particular surroundings (e.g., Adams and Marshall, 1996; Kroger, 2000; Bosma and Kunnen, 2001). says that high-stakes testing is harmful to disadvantaged children (like LEP'S) because they are assigned greater amounts of "deadly boring drills for longer periods" resulting in an increasing negative attitude to school work by these low achievers. Resistance to cultural intervention: formation of inhibitory collective and childrens self-defensive regulation in a Chinese school. doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.80.3.501. Then he thought that, being the older brother, he should take on the responsibility, so he went back and told his mother that he did it. There is no right or wrong, no good or bad about the stories. Psychol. If she cannot meet the standards of others, she cannot get affirmed, and thus, her self-worth is negatively affected.