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...

BACKGROUND There is a significant treatment gap for patients with depression. A third of sufferers never seek help, and the vast majority of those who do only do so after considerable delay. Little is understood regarding poor help-seeking rates amongst people with depression, with existing research mainly focussed on the impact of barriers to treatment. The current study explored psychological...

During the past three decades, the achievement goal approach to achievement motivation has emerged as an influential area of research, and is dedicated to understanding the reasons behind the individual's drive to achieve competence and performance. However, the current literature on achievement goals is segmented rather than integrated. That is, citations across the three major and distinct ac...

PURPOSE The relationships among students' self-efficacy, 2 x 2 achievement goals (mastery-approach [MAp], mastery-avoidance [MAv], performance-approach [PAp], and performance-avoidance goals), and achievement performance remain largely unanswered. We tested a model of the mediating role of self-efficacy on the relationship between 2 x 2 achievement goals and cardiorespiratory fitness METHOD A...

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 ...

OBJECTIVE Behavioral factors such as avoidance and persistence have received massive theoretical and empirical attention in the attempts to explain chronic pain and disability. The determinants of these pain behaviors remain, however, poorly understood. We propose a self-regulation perspective to increase our understanding of pain-related avoidance and persistence. METHODS A narrative review....

Little is known about symptom preferences of clinical psychiatrists in the treatment of geriatric depression and preferences for avoiding adverse drug effects. Participants (board-certified psychiatrists) were recruited prior to a lecture on geriatric depression during a continuing education program. An analytic hierarchy process was performed and participants were asked for pairwise comparison...

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...