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Underachievement Research Articles

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• Underachievement Among Gifted Students: What We Really Know
• Dealing with the Stereotype of Underachievement
• The Gifted Underachiever: Marching to a Different Drummer?
• From Overt Behaviour to Developing Potential: The Gifted Underachiever
• Helping the Underachieving
• Underachieving Gifted Students Spring 1996
• Underachieving Gifted Students
• The Centre for Applied Motivation Inc
  The Center for Applied Motivation was founded to develop and enhance self-motivation. Lack of motivation causes underachievement which leads to low productivity, acceptance of mediocrity, unhappiness and failure.
• Underachiever Profile
• Who are Underachievers?
• Types of Underachievers
• Under the Surface: What Underachievers Feel and How They Defend Against It
• Emotional Defenses
• The Importance of Certainty
• Instilling Values
• Mental Health Net
  Free On-Line Books: Psychological Self Help : Chapter 4: Behaviour, Motivation and Self Control.
• Motivation
• Theories About the Need for Achievement
• Attribution theory
• Motivated underachievement
• Social-Cognitive theories of achievement
• Becoming motivated to study
• Learned industriousness
• Humanistic theories: hierarchy of needs
• Positive addiction
• Popular motivation books; serious references
• Procrastination: an example of hard-to-understand behavior
• How to stop procrastinating
• Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises
• Underachieving Gifted Students: A Mother's Perspective
• The Miseducation of our Gifted Children
• What educators of gifted learners need to know about Underachievement
• Correlates of Underachievement Among Gifted and Non-Gifted Black Youth
• Pensylvannia Department of Education: Underachievement : Developing Student Potential - Primary Characteristics

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