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Participation in competitions is strongly connected to students’ academic achievement, the highly performing students usually participate in competitions. Social environmental factors, such as the extent of social support, which can derive from the family members, parents, friends, or the family’s social economic status, can also influence students’ participation in competitions. The aim of our study was to find out which are those key components, that particularly determine students to attend competitions, social...

Participation in competitions has numerous advantages on students’ psychological characteristics. Beyond the attractive rewards, attending competitions contribute to the development of social, cognitive skills and to the refining of metacognitive skills. Participation in contests promote the transformation of metacognitive skills: planning, time management, self-monitoring and evaluation of performance. The aim of the current study is the investigation of differences between metacognitive skills of students attend...