The authors examined the role of achievement goals, ability, and high school performance in predicting academic success over students’ college careers. First, the authors examined which variables predicted students’ interest and performance in an introductory psychology course taken their first semester in college. Then, the authors followed students until they graduated to examine continued in...

Informed by the expectancy-value and social cognitive theories of learning, the present study proposed a path model to investigate the impact of motivational beliefs as defined by listening self-efficacy, three types of goal orientations, and task value on self-regulation of Iranian EFL learners, in addition to the unique contribution of each to the variability in the listening comprehension sc...

Objective: Based on Elliot’s revised achievement goal framework [Elliot and McGregor (2001). A 2 2 achievement goal framework. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 501–519], the present study tested the gender invariance of the multiple achievement goal measurement model as well as the hypothesized antecedents and consequences of the multiple achievement goals embedded in a structu...

The present paper reports two studies designed to test the Dualistic Model of Passion with regard to performance attainment in two fields of expertise. Results from both studies supported the Passion Model. Harmonious passion was shown to be a positive source of activity investment in that it directly predicted deliberate practice (Study 1) and positively predicted mastery goals which in turn p...

This study examined language learning strategy and goal orientation of college-level English Language Learners (ELLs) by using a questionnaire survey. It analyzed the relationship between demographic characteristics further explored correlation use orientation. The results show that non-Asian ELLs had greater performance tendency than Asian ELLs. who bachelor’s degree higher level mastery orien...

• We investigated temporal relationships and domain specificity of goal pursuit. 681 German faculty members were surveyed 4 times across two years. Mastery strivings reciprocally linked with teaching research performance. Primarily goals mattered for the development burnout levels. Burnout levels in turn impacted subsequent goals. Motivation plays a central role members’ professional lives—with...

Parent involvement is a concept which includes children’s education. Research and theories suggest that parent can predict achievement goal. The aims of this research to know whether the Yogyakarta high-school students (185 males 379 females) were selected fill in two questionnaires assessed both their perceptions students’ goals. SEM analyses showed model was fit explain correlation between Re...

<span>Achievement motivation evolved fast in the educational field. In this development, trichotomous and 2X2 models received myriad attention from specialist. However, there is a debate about which better between two models. This study aimed to intercede argue that study's duration should be accounted for validation. Approach goals dominate new students' achievement goals, old will show ...