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Children's help seeking and impulsivity

Minna PuustinenMarja KokkonenLea PulkkinenAsko Tolvanen

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Matching (statistics)Teacher ratingSocial Psychology4. Education05 social sciences050301 education050109 social psychologyImpulsivityStructural equation modelingHelp-seekingEducationDevelopmental psychologyQuestion askingNaturalistic observationScale (social sciences)[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/PsychologyDevelopmental and Educational Psychologymedicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesmedicine.symptomPsychology0503 education

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Abstract The aim of the present study was to analyze the relationship between students' (100 children aged 8 to 12) help-seeking behavior and impulsivity. Help-seeking behavior was evaluated using a naturalistic experimental paradigm in which children were placed in a problem-solving situation and had the opportunity to seek help from the experimenter, if needed. Impulsivity was analyzed using the Hyperactivity–Impulsivity Scale from the Teacher Rating Form of the Multidimensional Peer Nomination Inventory (TR-MPNI), Circle Tracing Task (CTT), Matching Familiar Figures (MFF), and Impulsiveness and Venturesomeness scales from the Eysenck Junior I 6 questionnaire. Structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that impulsivity was not related to children's question asking. Different correlational patterns were found for question asking and other help-seeking variables (i.e., performance scores and mean reflection time preceding question asking). The two Eysenck Junior I 6 scales showed no significant correlations with other measures. The importance of considering the many sidedness of both help-seeking and impulsivity constructs is discussed.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2004-01-01Learning and Individual Differences
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2004.04.001