Mastery Motivation: Origins, Conceptualizations, and Applications

Preface, Irving E. Sigel
Foreword, Frank A. Pedersen
Mastery Motivation: Overview, Definitions, and Conceptual Issues, George A. Morgan, Robert H. MacTurk, and Elizabeth J. Hrncir
The Assessment of Mastery Motivation in Infants and Young Children, Robert H. MacTurk, George A. Morgan, and Kay D. Jennings
Continuities and Discontinuities in Mastery Motivation During Infancy and Toddlerhood: A Conceptualization and Review, Karen Caplovitz Barrett and George A. Morgan
Mastery Motivation Within a General Organizational Model of Competence, Ronald Seifer and Brian E. Vaughn
Mothers and Others: The Role of the Socializing Environment in the Development of Mastery Motivation, Nancy A. Busch-Rossnagel, Diana E. Knauf-Jensen and Fabiana S. DesRosiers
The Domains of Infant Mastery Motivation, Theodore D. Wachs and Terri Tarr Combs
Contributions and Confounds From Biology and Genetics, Joan I. Vondra
The Motivational Characteristics of Infants and Children with Physical and Sensory Impairments, Kay D. Jennings and Robert H. MacTurk
The Impact of Mental Retardation on Motivated Behavior, Susan C. Hupp
The Effects of Prematurity and Other Perinatal Factors on Infants' Mastery Motivation
Robert J. Harmon and Nancy S. Murrow
Mastery Motivation: Implications for Intervention, Penny Hauser-Cram and Jack P. Shonkoff
On Definitions and Measures of Mastery Motivation, Robert B. McCall. Mastery Motivation: Past, Present and Future, David J. Messer
Toward a Multifaceted Conceptualization of Mastery Motivation: An Organized Summary of Research, George A. Morgan and Raymond K. Yang
Concluding Comments on Mastery Motivation: Origins, Conceptualizations and Applications, Karen Kaplovitz Barrett, Robert H. MacTurk, and George A. Morgan
Author Index
Subject Index