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Project 7: Coping with unfulfilled achievement expectations

Prof. Dr. Martin Pinquart (Developmental Psychology)

PhD Student: Lara Orphal

Many students tend to have overly optimistic expectations about their academic achievement and are, therefore, often confronted with expectation violations. The PhD project will analyze further predictors of coping with violations of achievement expectations with experimental studies and possibly a longitudinal study. The studies will analyze under which conditions achievement expectations are changed in response to expectation violations or maintained by ignoring and downplaying the importance of the validation of by actively attempting to increase the probability of future expectation confirmation.  Both aspects of the expectation violation and of the students’ personality will be considered as predictors of coping with expectation violations. 

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