CVT's control–anxiety relation breaks down across latent emotional profiles, with unstandardized coefficients ranging from −0.292 to +0.024 including non-significant positive effects¶

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q2 i? The most notable deviation from universality concerns Academic Control and Anxiety: its effect weakens and reverses direction across latent profiles relative to the full sample. → Dirk Tempelaar · Alexandra Niculescu 2026

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Dirk Tempelaar · Alexandra Niculescu 2026¶

Dirk Tempelaar · Alexandra Niculescu. (2026). Testing the Relative Universalism of Psychological Theories: A Person-Centered Analysis of Control-Value Theory. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-026-10155-2

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Mixture regression (SEM within latent profiles) of control-value relations. The article reports control–anxiety unstandardized coefficients falling "from − 0.686 in the full sample" to a range across profiles that includes non-significant positive effects, a directional reversal inconsistent with CVT.

"The most notable deviation from universality concerns the relation between Academic Control and Anxiety: unstandardized coefficients decrease from − 0.686 in the full sample (with similar values across demographic groups) to values ranging from − 0.292 to + 0.024 across profiles, including non-significant positive effects."

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