Linking High School Students’ Achievement Goal Orientations With Their Competence Beliefs and Their Perception of Teachers’ Emotional Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents have experienced limitations in their everyday activities. Consequently, mental health has become an area of concern. However, there been much less a focus on factors and mechanisms contributing how they approached various academic activities during pandemic. The current study fills this gap by investigating associations between adolescents’ competence beliefs perception teachers’ emotional support achievement goals (mastery, performance, work avoidance) at onset second wave pandemic Canada. Participants were 90 Canadian high school grades 9 10 surveyed November 2020. Data analyzed using multiple regression mediation analyses. Among most salient results, found predict goals, above beyond support, these significantly positively associated with mastery performance orientation, marginally negatively avoidance orientation. Results also showed that mediated association goal These findings are discussed light relevant pre-pandemic evidence about role orientations.