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Overview

Mimi Bong is affiliated with Korea University in South Korea and conducts research primarily in the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their scholarly output includes a significant focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and education, with additional interests in statistics and probability and developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics covered in Mimi Bong's work are education, achievement, and giftedness; early childhood education and development; grit, self-efficacy, and motivation; psychological well-being and life satisfaction; motivation and self-concept in sports; cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills; and parental involvement in education.

Recent publications by Mimi Bong include the following papers:

  • The role of cost in adolescent students' maladaptive academic outcomes, 2020, Journal of School Psychology
  • Enhancing children's math motivation with a joint intervention on mindset and gender stereotypes, 2021, Learning and Instruction
  • Controllability Attribution as a Mediator in the Effect of Mindset on Achievement Goal Adoption Following Failure, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Assessing students' values and costs in three countries: Gender and age differences within countries and structural differences across countries, 2020, Learning and Individual Differences
  • Effects of achievement goals on self-control, 2021, Contemporary Educational Psychology

Frequent co-authors with whom Mimi Bong has collaborated include Sung-il Kim, Johnmarshall Reeve, Hyun Ji Lee, Minhye Lee, and Dajung Diane Shin.

Among the venues where Mimi Bong's research is regularly published are Social Psychology of Education, Theory Into Practice, Frontiers in Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences, and Contemporary Educational Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Academic Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: How Different Are They Really?

    Mimi Bong;Einar M. Skaalvik

  • Comparison between self-concept and self-efficacy in academic motivation research

    Mimi Bong;Richard E. Clark

  • Between- and Within-Domain Relations of Academic Motivation Among Middle and High School Students: Self-Efficacy, Task-Value, and Achievement Goals

    Mimi Bong

  • Self-efficacy for self-regulated learning, academic self-efficacy, and Internet self-efficacy in web-based instruction

    Young-Ju Joo;Mimi Bong;Ha-Jeen Choi

  • Role of Self-Efficacy and Task-Value in Predicting College Students' Course Performance and Future Enrollment Intentions

    Mimi Bong

  • Exploring the validity of a teachers’ self-efficacy scale in five countries

    Robert M. Klassen;Mimi Bong;Ellen L. Usher;Wan Har Chong

  • Teachers’ Collective Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Job Stress in Cross-Cultural Context

    Robert M. Klassen;Ellen L. Usher;Mimi Bong

  • Academic motivation in self-efficacy, task value, achievement goal orientations, and attributional beliefs

    Mimi Bong

  • Age-Related Differences in Achievement Goal Differentiation.

    Mimi Bong

  • Testing interest and self-efficacy as predictors of academic self-regulation and achievement

    Woogul Lee;Myung-Jin Lee;Mimi Bong

  • Effects of Parent-Child Relationships and Classroom Goal Structures on Motivation, Help-Seeking Avoidance, and Cheating.

    Mimi Bong

  • Longitudinal Investigation into the Role of Perceived Social Support in Adolescents' Academic Motivation and Achievement.

    Juyeon Song;Mimi Bong;Kyehyoung Lee;Sung-il Kim

  • English language learners' self-efficacy profiles and relationship with self-regulated learning strategies

    Do Hong Kim;Chuang Wang;Hyun Seon Ahn;Mimi Bong

  • Generality of academic self-efficacy judgments: Evidence of hierarchical relations.

    Mimi Bong

  • Problems in academic motivation research and advantages and disadvantages of their solutions.

    Mimi Bong

  • Within-Grade Changes in Korean Girls' Motivation and Perceptions of the Learning Environment Across Domains and Achievement Levels.

    Mimi Bong

  • Perfectionism and Motivation of Adolescents in Academic Contexts.

    Mimi Bong;Arum Hwang;Arum Noh;Sung-il Kim

  • Comparison of Self-Beliefs for Predicting Student Motivation and Achievement

    Mimi Bong;Catherine Cho;Hyun Seon Ahn;Hye Jin Kim

  • Tests of the Internal/External Frames of Reference Model with Subject-Specific Academic Self-Efficacy and Frame-Specific Academic Self-Concepts

    Mimi Bong

  • Personal Factors Affecting the Generality of Academic Self-Efficacy Judgments: Gender, Ethnicity, and Relative Expertise

    Mimi Bong

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Klassen
Robert M. Klassen University of York
Benjamin Nagengast
Benjamin Nagengast University of Tübingen
Johnmarshall Reeve
Johnmarshall Reeve Australian Catholic University
Einar M. Skaalvik
Einar M. Skaalvik Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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