1st Edition
Mastery Motivation in Early Childhood Development, Measurement and Social Processes
List of illustrations. Notes on Contributors. 1. Mastery Motivation: An Introduction to Theories and Issues David J. Messer Part 1: Developmental Processes 2. Mastery, Attention, IQ and Parent-Infant Social Interaction David J. Messer 3. Mastery Motivation and the Formation of Self-Concept from Infancy through Early Childhood Kay Donahue Jennings 4. The Development of Mastery and its Perception within Caretaker-Child Dyads Jutta Heckhausen Part 2: Conceptualization and Measurement 5. Three Studies on the Development of Mastery Motivation in Infancy and Toddlerhood Karen Caplovitz Barrett, George A. Morgan and Christine Maslin-Cole 6. Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Young Children’s Mastery Motivation: Assessment and Review of Research George A. Morgan, Christine Maslin-Cole, Robert J. Harmon, Nancy A. Busch-Rossnagel, Kay D. Jennings, Penny Hauser-Cram and Lois Brockman 7. Mastery Motivation in Ethnic Minority Groups: The Sample Case of Hispanics Nancy A. Busch-Rossnagel, Maribel Vargas, Diana E. Knauf And Ruth Planos 8. Social and Motivational Development in Deaf and Hearing Infants Robert H. MacTurk 9. The Construct Validity of Measures of Social Mastery Motivation Terri T. Coombs and Theodore D. Wachs Part 3: Attachment and Social Processes 10. Mastery Motivation in Toddlers as Related to Quality of Attachment J. Marianne Riksen-Walraven, Hans Th. Meij, Juchke van Roozendaal and Jeanette Koks 11. Toddler Mastery Motivation and Competence: Links with Attachment Security, Maternal Scaffolding and Family Climate Christine Maslin-Cole, Inge Bretherton and George A. Morgan 12. Mastery Motivation in 3-year-old Children with Down Syndrome Penny Hauser-Cram. Name Index. Subject Index.
Biography
David J. Messer
