BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to integrate relevant goal-setting theory and to identify if trainees' goal orientations have an impact on the assigned goals-performance relationship. METHODS Trainees attended 1 of the 3 goal-training activities (do your best, performance, or learning goals) for knot tying (KT) and camera navigation (CN) during the 3rd-year clerkship rotation. Questi...

Background: The present study tested Lee et al.'s (2008) model of moral attitudes and cheating behavior in sports in an Italian sample of young tennis players and extended it to predict behavior in actual match play. In the first phase of the study we proposed that moral, competence and status values would predict prosocial and antisocial moral attitudes directly, and indirectly through athlete...

This study employed hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to explore differences among college majors on five goals orientations. Specifically, measures of mastery-approach, performance-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-avoidance, and work-avoidance goals were collected from a sample of 1889 college students representing 26 different majors. Statistically significant differences existed amo...

We examined a theoretical model of global self-esteem that incorporated constructs from achievement goal and selfdetermination theories. The model hypothesized that self-determined or autonomous motives would mediate the influence of achievement goal orientation on global self-esteem. The adapted version of the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (Mullan et al., 1997), the Percepti...

We examined a theoretical model of global self-esteem that incorporated constructs from achievement goal and self-determination theories. The model hypothesized that self-determined or autonomous motives would mediate the influence of achievement goal orientation on global self-esteem. The adapted version of the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (Mullan et al., 1997), the Percept...

The aim of the present study was to examine (a) if athletes’ moral judgment is affected by sport type, the level of competition – in terms of the league in which one competes – and regular playing position, and (b) possible relations between moral judgment and the overall years of athletic experience, self-perception of sport ability, and achievement goal orientations. The sample comprised 170 ...

The ’Study with Me’ learning technique is a new Z-generation online approach that has gained popularity. Still, there lack of understanding regarding the characteristics its using learners. This study aimed to identify learners and investigate how their motivational orientations influence situations (learning time, place), competencies, digital literacy. A survey was conducted 384 learners, cat...