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Motivation to Succeed - Subject Baseline

This measure appears in the following time-points: Baseline.

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Description of Measure

The motivation to succeed items are taken from Eccles et al. (1998). Six items tap the subject's assessment of the opportunities available in his/her neighborhood regarding schooling and work. An additional two items are included regarding the adolescent's perceptions of how far they would like to go in school and how far they think they will go in school. These are treated as individual items.

Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on the summary scale using these six items. A model with acceptable fit was found for the baseline data, using Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Correction for Non-normality, allowing terms #44 and #45 to correlate (CFI=0.971; RMSEA=0.049).

An overall "motivation to succeed" score [s0motsuc] is computed from the six items (s0sch40 through s0sch45). This score represents the mean of the scale items, after items s0sch42 through s0sch45 are recoded. A higher score indicates more optimism regarding future success. Data must be contained in four of the six items in order to receive a computed mean.

The following individual items are also available:

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