Simple psychological intervention boosts school performance of ethnic minority students


	Simple psychological intervention boosts school performance of ethnic minority students

RayWatkins

5-27-2009 11:23 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dc31a0fb-ab57-47f6-97bb-8e750094b068/AC06E87C-B3D6-49E0-8258-4076070BC309/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/04/simple-psychological-intervention.html" href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/04/simple-psychological-intervention.html" style="font-size: 11px;">bps-research-digest.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/04/simple-psychological-intervention.html"><DIV><A href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BE-bA2rMB2A/Seegysh252I/AAAAAAAAB7k/9HMsnxNl1pk/s1600-h/pupil.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325401877195974498" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BE-bA2rMB2A/Seegysh252I/AAAAAAAAB7k/9HMsnxNl1pk/s200/pupil.jpg" /></A>Fear of failure at school can be crippling, especially for ethnic minority students. <A href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7473032">Research shows</A> it's all too common for them to fear that their own poor performance will reinforce negative stereotypes. Unfortunately this anxiety only serves to undermine their achievement, thus perpetuating the cycle. Now <A href="http://psych.colorado.edu/~gcohen/">Geoff Cohen</A> and colleagues have shown a simple psychological intervention based on self-affirmation can help prevent this downward spiral, leading to academic benefits up to two years' later.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/04/simple-psychological-intervention.html"><DIV>The intervention involved twelve-year-old students at an American school choosing one or more values, such as relationships with friends or family, music, art, politics, and so on, and then spending 10 minutes writing about why those values were important to them. Doing this has been shown in past research to reduce stress and to bolster people's ability to withstand the threat of failure.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC06E87C-B3D6-49E0-8258-4076070BC309/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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