Why grades engender performance-avoidance goals: The mediating role of autonomous motivation.

Why Motivation Only Sometimes Affects Base-rate Sensitivity: the Mediating Role of Representations on Adaptive Performance

Emotional exhaustion and job performance: the mediating role of motivation.

The literature concerning the relationship between emotional exhaustion and performance led researchers to raise questions about the extent to which the variables are related. In 2 time-lagged samples, the authors found that motivation mediates the emotional exhaustion-job performance relationship. Moreover, the authors found that participants appear to target their investment of resources in r...

Avoidance achievement motivation: a personal goals analysis.

The present research investigated one antecedent and various consequences of pursuing avoidance personal achievement goals over the course of a semester. The authors assessed participants' achievement-relevant goals using the newly devised Achievement Goals Questionnaire. The motive to avoid failure, assessed with self-report and projective measures, was established as an antecedent of avoidanc...

The Relationship between Attachment to Mother and Academic Performance: Mediating Role of Academic Motivation

The Relationship between Attachment to Mother and Academic Performance: Mediating Role of Academic Motivation M. Azadi V. Farzad, Ph.D. E. Sa’diPour, Ph.D. Z. Khoshnevisan, Ph.D. A. Karimi, Ph.D. The present correlational study sought to determine the mediating role of academic motivation in the relationship between attachment to mother and academic performance amon...

“Too complex for me!” Why do performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals predict exam performance?

performance-approach goals (goals to outperform others) positively predict exam performance whereas performance-avoidance goals (goals not to perform more poorly than others) negatively predict it. Because prior classroom research has primarily utilized multiplechoice exam performance, the first aim of the present study was to extend these findings to a different measure of exam performance (or...