Eleonora Ioana Pop

Eleonora Ioana Pop
Babeș-Bolyai University | UBB · Department of Psychology

PhD

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Objective: Education has a strong impact on adolescent development. This study investigated the complex longitudinal associations between educational identity processes, academic achievement, and perfectionism. Method: The study used a 4-wave design (N = 744 adolescents, Mage = 15.2 years, 55% girls). Results: Results showed that self-oriented...
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Personality and identity formation are intricately linked in adolescent development. The personality disposition of perfectionism has been associated with identity processes, but their longitudinal interplay in adolescence has not yet been investigated. This 4-wave study, with 5- to 6-month intervals between each wave (N = 744 Caucasian adolescents...
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Perfectionism is a pervasive and prevalent personality disposition with high implications for psychological maladjustment. Adolescence represents a particularly relevant period for the development of perfectionism, and perceived parental behaviors have been shown to play an important part. Yet, so far only few longitudinal studies have investigated...
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Objective: Being a student is an important social role youth play during adolescence and how they approach this role has critical implications for their future development. This three-wave longitudinal study investigated the links between academic achievement (i.e., GPA) and personality traits, through the lens of social comparison mechanisms. Me...
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Introduction. Present-day developments in Europe, such as persistent socio-economic inequalities, growing numbers of young people at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion, xenophobic attitudes, and discrimination, present numerous challenges to youth identity development. Experiences of social exclusion and discrimination based on important aspects o...
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Education and vocation are core identity domains in adolescence. School is a normative social context in this developmental time frame and the formation of an educational identity is embedded in the goals that youth pursue in school. One of the main goals of education is to prepare young people for their future careers. Hence, educational identity...
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Identity formation is a main adolescent psychosocial developmental task. The complex inter-connection between different processes that are at the basis of one’s identity is a research and applied intervention priority. In this context, the identity style model focuses on social-cognitive strategies (i.e., informational, normative, and diffuse-avoid...
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This study examines the relation between educational and vocational identity in Romanian adolescents. Access to work-relevant experiences is very limited among Romanian adolescents, and most encounters with career constructs are confined to educational settings. Hence, to gain a better understanding of how identity processes in the educational and...
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Identity formation in adolescence is closely linked to searching for and acquiring meaning in one’s life. To date little is known about the manner in which these 2 constructs may be related in this developmental stage. In order to shed more light on their longitudinal links, we conducted a 3-wave longitudinal study, investigating how identity proce...
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The present three-wave longitudinal study provides empirical evidence for the mechanisms of the bright and dark sides of identity development in the academic context. First, we investigated the patterns of stability and change in educational identity and academic achievement among adolescents. Second, we examined the reciprocal associations between...
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Academic achievement is viewed as an indicator of success starting from an early age, when children enter into the educational system. Culture plays an important role in how academic achievement is viewed. In Romania, a post-communist country, society in general and parents and teachers in particular reinforce and pressure children to be competitiv...
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Emerging adulthood is a challenging period in terms of identity development, especially in the education and career domains. In the present paper we employed a person-centered approach of identity processes to identify pre-service teachers' educational identity statuses. As beliefs about teaching influence teachers' engagement in professional devel...
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The manner in which young people set academic achievement goals, engage in academic tasks, and relate to success or failure has a decisive influence on how they shape their educational identity. What motivates adolescents and emerging adults to engage in learning commitments? How are their motivational orientations related to their identity develop...
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The training of future teachers aims at fostering skills for both their personal and professional advancement. In this context, individual aspirations and identity processes shape the manner in which students become involved in a teaching career and the type of beliefs they acquire about teaching. In Romania, little research has approached so far a...

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