What goes into motivating students to take effective action? Ideally, are not only motivated invest time their studying, but that they use in and productive ways. In the present study, we surveyed college undergraduates ( N = 366) about how engage one of courses. Specifically, explored motivation-related implicit beliefs ease difficulty mindsets, intelligence mindset; Dweck, 2000 ; Fisher Oyser...

The purpose of the current study was to examine the influence of perceived motivational climate on achievement goals in physical education using a structural equation mixture modeling (SEMM) analysis. Within one analysis, we identified groups of students with homogenous profiles in perceptions of motivational climate and examined the relationships between motivational climate, 2 x 2 achievement...

The identification of the cognitive, affective, social and even physiological factors affecting second or foreign language learning routes and rate has for long been a challenging aspiration for second language researchers. However, a recent preoccupation of the researchers in this area has been the study of the combinatorial impacts of such factors on second or foreign language learning proces...

We predict real-time fluctuations in employees' positive and negative emotions from concurrent appraisals of the immediate task situation and individual differences in performance goal orientation. Task confidence, task importance, positive emotions, and negative emotions were assessed 5 times per day for 3 weeks in an experience sampling study of 135 managers. At the within-person level, appra...

Children with developmental disabilities tend to demonstrate lower levels of mastery motivation in comparison with typically developing children. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of physical and social environmental interventions on the mastery motivation of children with disabilities. Participants included 19 children (from two classes) with disabilities between the ages of...

The present study aims to find out the effect of parental involvement on goal orientation adolescents. This had been conducted a sample 150 adolescents (75 males and 75 females) randomly selected from various schools Nainital district Uttarakhand. For data collection 'Parental Involvement Scale' by Chauhan & Arora (2009) for 'Goal Test' Shreekala (2013) was used. analyses data, ANOVA findin...