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Overview

Rhonda Craven is affiliated with the Australian Catholic University in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with specific attention to Education, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, and Sociology and Political Science as subfields.

Their work focuses on several prominent topics, including:

  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
  • Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Indigenous and Place-Based Education

Rhonda Craven has published in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • British Educational Research Journal
  • Contemporary Educational Psychology
  • Educational Psychology Review

Key recent papers by Rhonda Craven include:

  • "A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction at Work in an Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australian Sample Across Occupation Types," 2022, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • "Overcoming Limitations in Peer-Victimization Research That Impede Successful Intervention: Challenges and New Directions," 2023, PubMed
  • "Empowering the voices and agency of Indigenous Australian youth and their wellbeing in higher education," 2021, International Journal of Educational Research
  • "Boarding schools: A longitudinal examination of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous boarders' and non-boarders' wellbeing," 2022, British Educational Research Journal
  • "Self-concept a game changer for academic success for high-achieving Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous students: Reciprocal effects between self-concept and achievement," 2022, Contemporary Educational Psychology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Alexandre J. S. Morin
  • Danielle Tracey
  • Christophe Maïano
  • Janet Mooney
  • Cynthia Gagnon

Best Publications

  • Reciprocal Effects of Self-Concept and Performance From a Multidimensional Perspective: Beyond Seductive Pleasure and Unidimensional Perspectives:

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven

  • Self-Concepts of Young Children 5 to 8 Years of Age: Measurement and Multidimensional Structure

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven;Raymond Debus

  • Do Self-Concept Interventions Make a Difference? A Synergistic Blend of Construct Validation and Meta-Analysis

    Alison J. O'Mara;Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven;Raymond L. Debus

  • The Big-fish–little-pond-effect Stands Up to Critical Scrutiny: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Future Research

    Herbert Warren Marsh;Marjorie Seaton;Ulrich Trautwein;Oliver Ludtke

  • Structure, Stability, and Development of Young Children's Self-Concepts: A Multicohort–Multioccasion Study

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda Craven;Raymond Debus

  • The Effects of Gifted and Talented Programs on Academic Self-Concept: The Big Fish Strikes Again

    Herbert W. Marsh;Danuta Chessor;Rhonda Craven;Lawrence Roche

  • Academic Self-Concept: Beyond The Dustbowl

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda Craven

  • How do preschool children feel about themselves? Unraveling measurement and multidimensional self-concept structure.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Louise A. Ellis;Rhonda G. Craven

  • Effects of internally focused feedback and attributional feedback on enhancement of academic self-concept

    Rhonda G. Craven;Herbert W. Marsh;Raymond L. Debus

  • Causal modeling of self-concept, job satisfaction, and retention of nurses

    Leanne S. Cowin;Maree Johnson;Maree Johnson;Rhonda Gai Craven;Herbert Warren Marsh;Herbert Warren Marsh

  • Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM), and Set-ESEM: Optimal balance between goodness of fit and parsimony.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Jiesi Guo;Theresa Dicke;Philip D. Parker

  • Earning Its Place as a Pan-Human Theory: Universality of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect across 41 Culturally and Economically Diverse Countries.

    Marjorie Seaton;Herbert Warren Marsh;Rhonda Gai Craven

  • Construct Validity of the Multidimensional Structure of Bullying and Victimization: An Application of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Benjamin Nagengast;Alexandre J. S. Morin;Roberto H. Parada

  • Evaluation of the Big-Two-Factor Theory of Academic Motivation Orientations: An Evaluation of Jingle-Jangle Fallacies

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven;John W. Hinkley;Raymond L. Debus

  • The centrality of the self-concept construct for psychological wellbeing and unlocking human potential: Implications for child and educational psychologists

    Rhonda G. Craven;Herbert W. Marsh

  • Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect Generalizability and Moderation—Two Sides of the Same Coin

    Marjorie Seaton;Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven

  • The twofold multidimensionality of academic self-concept : domain specificity and separation between competence and affect components

    A. Katrin Arens;Alexander Seeshing Yeung;Rhonda G. Craven;Marcus Hasselhorn

  • The reciprocal relations between self-concept, motivation and achievement: juxtaposing academic self-concept and achievement goal orientations for mathematics success

    Marjorie Seaton;Philip Parker;Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven

  • Separation of competency and affect components of multiple dimensions of academic self-concept: A developmental perspective

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda Craven;Raymond Debus

  • The Pivotal Role of Frames of Reference in Academic Self-Concept Formation: The "Big Fish-Little Pond" Effect.

    Herbert W. Marsh;Rhonda G. Craven

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert W. Marsh
Herbert W. Marsh Australian Catholic University
Alexander Seeshing Yeung
Alexander Seeshing Yeung Australian Catholic University
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Philip D. Parker
Philip D. Parker Australian Catholic University
Dennis M. McInerney
Dennis M. McInerney Education University of Hong Kong
Alexandre J. S. Morin
Alexandre J. S. Morin Concordia University
Paul C. Burnett
Paul C. Burnett Queensland University of Technology
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Joseph Ciarrochi
Joseph Ciarrochi Australian Catholic University
Kit-Tai Hau
Kit-Tai Hau Chinese University of Hong Kong

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