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SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AND FAILURE IN PORTUGUESE AND SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES EDITED BY : Edgar Galindo, Adelinda A. Candeias, Heldemerina S. Pires, and Miguel Ángel Carbonero PUBLISHED IN : Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers Copyright Statement About Frontiers © Copyright 2007-2018 Frontiers Media SA. All rights reserved. Frontiers is more than just an open-access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a All content included on this site, pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, video/audio clips, research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have downloads, data compilations and an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. 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Pires, University of Évora, Portugal Miguel Ángel Carbonero, University of Valladolid, Spain Cover image: Syda Productions/Shutterstock.com This book is devoted to an increasingly important educational problem in the modern societies: school achievement and failure. School failure is presently a problem in developed as well as in developing countries. In the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries in Europe and Latin America, school achievement and failure is consequently an important topic of political, social and scientific discussion. The following papers revise the latest research in the field, from the perspective of Psychology. Citation: Galindo, E., Candeias, A. A., Pires, H. S., Carbonero, M. Á., eds. (2018). School Achievement and Failure in Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-552-2 Frontiers in Psychology 2 August 2018 | School Achievement and Failure Table of Contents 05 Editorial: School Achievement and Failure in Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries Edgar Galindo, Adelinda A. Candeias, Heldemerina S. Pires and Miguel Ángel Carbonero SECTION I AN ANALYSIS OF VARIABLES 08 The Role of Self-Control and Grit in Domains of School Success in Students of Primary and Secondary School Xavier Oriol, Rafael Miranda, Juan C. Oyanedel and Javier Torres 17 Career Preparedness and School Achievement of Portuguese Children: Longitudinal Trend Articulations Íris M. Oliveira, Maria do Céu Taveira and Erik J. Porfeli 30 Emotion Understanding, Social Competence and School Achievement in Children From Primary School in Portugal Maria da Glória Franco, Maria J. Beja, Adelinda Candeias and Natalie Santos 45 School Achievement and Performance in Chilean High Schools: The Mediating Role of Subjective Wellbeing in School-Related Evaluations Verónica López, Juan C. Oyanedel, Marian Bilbao, Javier Torres, Denise Oyarzún, Macarena Morales, Paula Ascorra and Claudia Carrasco 60 Social and Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement in Portuguese Schools: A Bibliometric Study Ana M. Cristóvão, Adelinda A. Candeias and José Verdasca 72 Predictive Relation Between Early Numerical Competencies and Mathematics Achievement in First Grade Portuguese Children Lilia Marcelino, Óscar de Sousa and António Lopes 81 Academic Achievement in Physics-Chemistry: The Predictive Effect of Attitudes and Reasoning Abilities Paulo N. Vilia, Adelinda A. Candeias, António S. Neto, Maria Da Glória S. Franco and Madalena Melo 90 The Influence of Family Support According to Gender in the Portuguese Language Course Achievement Heldemerina S. Pires, Adelinda A. Candeias, Luísa Grácio, Edgar Galindo and Madalena Melo SECTION II INTERVENTION STRATEGIES 98 Program to Promote Personal and Social Responsibility in the Secondary Classroom Miguel A. Carbonero, Luis J. Martín-Antón, Lourdes Otero and Eugenio Monsalvo Frontiers in Psychology 3 August 2018 | School Achievement and Failure 110 Behavioral Skills Training in Portuguese Children With School Failure Problems Edgar Galindo, Adelinda A. Candeias, Heldemerina S. Pires, Luísa Grácio and Marcus Stück SECTION III PREVENTION STRATEGIES 122 A National Early Intervention System as a Strategy to Promote Inclusion and Academic Achievement in Portugal Vitor Franco, Madalena Melo, Graça Santos, Ana Apolónio and Leonor Amaral Frontiers in Psychology 4 August 2018 | School Achievement and Failure EDITORIAL published: 25 June 2018 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01074 Editorial: School Achievement and Failure in Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries Edgar Galindo 1*, Adelinda A. Candeias 1, Heldemerina S. Pires 1 and Miguel Ángelv Carbonero 2 1 Center for Research in Education and Psychology (CIEP), Psychology, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 2 Excellence Research Group GR179, Educational Psychology, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain Keywords: school achievement, school failure, academic achievement, educational psychology, applied psychology Edited by: Puri Checa, Editorial on the Research Topic Universidad de Granada, Spain Reviewed by: School Achievement and Failure in Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries Antonio Valle, University of A Coruña, Spain Alexandre Luiz De Oliveira Serpa, School failure is an important social problem in the present world (Organization for Economic Hogrefe Publishing Group, Brazil Co-operation Development, 2010). This seems to be especially true for Spanish and Portuguese *Correspondence: speaking countries in Europe (Eurydice, 2011) and Latin America (Román, 2013). Consequently, Edgar Galindo school achievement and failure is an increasingly important topic of discussion and research. [email protected] Psychology can make an important contribution to understanding these issues, emphasizing the individual perspective, i.e., defining academic and