Abstract
This chapter discusses the developmental influences on students' adaptive help seeking. This chapter focuses on how students respond to academic difficulty. This chapter presents a developmental perspective on the purpose of preachers and peers contribute—through their involvement and support for autonomy and competence—to children's competencies and motivational resources needed for adaptive help seeking. Further work is clearly needed in order to advance our understanding of the development of adaptive help seeking. This chapter suggests three particular topics: “the role of parents,” “the role of culture,” and “research methodology.” This chapter suggests methodological issues. First is the question of construct validity of “adaptive” and others have operationalized adaptiveness according to certain features. A second methodological issue is the need for longitudinal research. This chapter concludes by discussing developmental contributions of two major socializing agents for children—teachers and classmates, with suggestions for future research on help seeking.
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