Scientific Annals of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece VOLUME 3  INFORMATION SCIENTIFIC ANNALS  OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN GREECE ΙSBN 960-442-220-0 Edited annually by the Psychological Society of Northern Greece (PSNG) Volume 3, 2005 Legally responsible: Anastasia Efklides, President of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece. Tel: ++30-2310-997374. Fax: ++30-2310-997384. E-mail: efklides@psy.auth.gr  Executive Committee of PSNG: Anastasia Efklides George Grouios  Marios Goudas Anastasia Alevriadou Mary Kosmidis President Secretary Treasurer Member Member  Editors of the Scientific Annals of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece Editor-in-Chief: Anastasia Efklides Assistant Editors: Anastasia Alevriadou Associate Editors: George Grouios Filippos Vlachos   Symeon Vlachopoulos Panayiota Metallidou Fotini Bonoti George Panagis Dimitris Pnevmatikos   Editors of the 3rd Volume: Filippos Vlachos Fotini Bonoti Panayiota Metallidou Irini Dermitzaki Anastasia Efklides University of Thessaly, Greece University of Thessaly, Greece University of Thessaly, Greece University of Thessaly, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Editorial Board Anastasia Efklides Shulamith Kreitler Angeliki Leontari Diomedes Markoulis Markku Niemivirta Jose M. Prieto Yannis Theodorakis Maria Tzouriadou Marja Vauras Marcel Veenman Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Tel-Aviv University, Israel University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece University of Helsinki, Finland Complutense University, Madrid, Spain University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece University of Turku, Finland University of Leiden, The Netherlands Publisher: ELLINIKA GRAMMATA: Emm. Benaki 59, 106 81 Athens, Greece Τel: ++30-210-3891800 - Fax: ++30-210-3836658 Bookstore: Zood. Pigis 21 & Tzavela 1, 106 81 Athens, Greece © Copyright 2005: Psychological Society of Northern Greece (PSNG) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) for commercial purposes without the written permission of the copyright owners. 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Τόμος 3, 2005                                                                                               Volume 3, 2005 ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗ ΕΠΕΤΗΡΙΔΑ  ΤΗΣ  ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΚΗΣ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑΣ ΒΟΡΕΙΟΥ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ έτος ιδρύσεως 2002 SCIENTIFIC ANNALS OF THE  PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN GREECE founded 2002 ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΗ ΣΥΜΠΕΡΙΦΟΡΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΘΗΣΗ Επιμέλεια Σύνταξης και Έκδοσης:          Φίλιππος Βλάχος          Φωτεινή Μπονώτη          Παναγιώτα Μεταλλίδου          Ειρήνη Δερμιτζάκη          Αναστασία Ευκλείδη HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND LEARNING Editors:         Filippos Vlachos         Fotini Bonoti         Panayiota Metallidou         Irini Dermitzaki         Anastasia Efklides ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΑ                                                                               ELLINIKA GRAMMATA Τόμος 3, 2005                                                                                                  Volume 3, 2005 CONTENTS Authors list .........................................................................................................................XI Reviewers list ....................................................................................................................XIII Preface          Anastasia Efklides ......................................................................................................XV Prologue          Irini Dermitzaki and Panayiota Metallidou.......................................................................XVII The role of affect in self-regulated learning          Anastasia Efklides..........................................................................................................1 Self-talk and performance in sports and education          Yannis Theodorakis ......................................................................................................21 Self-regulatory strategies in learning and performance in young students          Irini Dermitzaki............................................................................................................43 Learning strategies and their relations with academic achievement in primary school children          Panayiota Metallidou.....................................................................................................65 Factor structure and discriminant validity of the Metacognitive Processes in  Physical Education Questionnaire          Argiris E. Theodosiou, Athanasios G. Papaioannou, and Konstantinos D. Mantis.........................91 Motivational effects on strategy use in text comprehension and map reading domains         Georgia Papantoniou & Anastasia Efklides.........................................................................119 The emotional experience of fear of success          Nikos Tsimpiskakis and Georgios D. Sideridis.....................................................................149 Perceptions of features of the classroom's psychological climate:  Their relationship with performance and self-efficacy          Efi Syngollitou and Eleftheria Gonida...............................................................................177 Academic performance and interpersonal relationships         Georgia Stephanou......................................................................................................201 Attributing meaning to pictures and theory of mind:  The development of children’s ability to understand the intention of the picture’s creator         Plousia Misailidi and Fotini Bonoti ...................................................................................229 Adolescents’ individual differences in relation to their perceived emotional intelligence         Maria Platsidou....... ...................................................................................................249 Development of lay-persons’ implicit theories about the wise person:  Comparison with the clever person, the creative, and the humanist         Despina Moraitou and Anastasia Efklides .........................................................................271