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Peer reviewedHeath, Nancy Lee – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
Comparison of self-perceptions of academic competence and actual competence of depressed (n=56) and nondepressed (n=71) children (grades five and eight) with and without learning disabilities (LD) found that the depressed LD group was more accurate in their self-perceptions of academic competence than the nondepressed LD group. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Problems
