INFLUENCE OF INNER-CITY ENVIRONMENT AND HEAD-START EXPERIENCE ON EFFECTANCE MOTIVATION

Effectance motivation was examined in 26 inner-city children attending Head Start, 26 inner-city children with no preschool experience, and 26 middle-class children attending private preschool. Head Start child ren scored higher on measures of effectance motivation than did their non-Head Start counterparts, their levels were lower, however, than th ose of the middle-class children. Implications of the findings are dis cussed.