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Carol Midgley, Harriet Feldlaufer, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Student/Teacher Relations and Attitudes toward Mathematics before and after the Transition to Junior High School, Child Development, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Aug., 1989), pp. 981-992
Midgley et al. (1989) studied this question.