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ehaviors. However, cool executive control was found to be related to on-task<br />

involvement as well as the competence motivation factor. On-task involvement appears<br />

to have moderate, significant relation with all of the classroom learning behaviors,<br />

competence motivation, attitude towards learning, and attention/persistence.<br />

Path model. The final PLS path model (see figure 2) depicts the structured model<br />

with the path coefficients, which are simply standardized beta regression coefficients.<br />

Figures 3a, 3b, 4a, and 4b represent the same model while also considering the<br />

moderating effects of gender and school type. Across all of these models, significance<br />

levels are determined by running a bootstrapping resampling algorithm (Esposito Vinzi,<br />

et al., 2010). In order to cover each component of the models, each of the<br />

aforementioned hypotheses will not be reviewed.<br />

Hypothesis Testing<br />

Hypothesis 1. The first hypothesis proposed that there will be a direct positive<br />

relation between each of the independent facets of self-regulation (hot and cool<br />

executive control) in preschool and the independent facets of kindergarten classroom<br />

learning behaviors (competence motivation, attitude towards learning,<br />

attention/persistence). The significant direct effects (indicated by the dark bolded lines)<br />

are very similar to the associations found in the correlation table (table 3) where hot<br />

executive control is only related to on-task involvement, and not any of the classroom<br />

learning behaviors. Cool executive control was, however, found to have a direct relation<br />

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