+Help-Seeking and Concealment Items

Marchand & Skinner (2007)

Topic: Help-Seeking - Help Seeking

Instructions: 

Mark answers to your agreement on each item in this questionnaire.

Response Options:

1. Not at all true 
2. Not very true
3. Sort of true
4. Very true

Items:

Help-Seeking Items

When I have trouble with a subject in school...

1. I ask for help understanding the material.
2. I get some help to understand the material better.
3. I ask the teacher to go over it with me.
4. I ask the teacher to explain what I didn’t understand.
5. I get some help on the parts I didn’t understand.

Concealment Items

When something bad happens to me in school (such as not doing

well on a test or not being able to answer an important question)...

6. I stay away from people.
7. I don’t want to see anyone.
8. I don’t want to talk to anyone about it.
9. I don’t want to talk about it.
10. I try to keep people from finding out.
11. I make sure nobody finds out.
12. I try to hide it.
13. I don’t tell anyone about it.
14. I don’t let anybody know about it.

*negatively worded items must be reverse coded

Citation: 

Marchand, G., & Skinner, E. A. (2007). Motivational dynamics of children's academic help-seeking and concealment. Journal of Educational Psychology, 99(1), 65. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.99.1.65 Links to an external site.. 

Link to PDF: https://www.pdx.edu/sites/www.pdx.edu.psy/files/media_assets/12_Motivational_dynamics_of_childrens_academic_help-seeking--Marchand_Skinner--2007.pdf Links to an external site.

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