AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

Personal mastery is an important determinant in shaping physical health across middle and late life. The modified effect of mastery on relation between frailty and adverse health outcome remains unclear. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic role of mastery on frailty among older people by using a nationwide representative population-based cohort. In total, 715 community...

objectives: some studies have recognized factors that are effective on academic achievement. the aim of the present study was to determine the relationship among personality factors, motivational strategies and achievement goals in predicting academic achievement of 2nd grade high school intellectually disabled students in tehran province. methods: in present correlation study, 200 intellectual...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

OBJECTIVE To explore levels of perceived racial and non-racial discrimination and their associations with self-esteem and mastery in the U.S.A. and South Africa. DESIGN We used ordinary least square regressions to test the cross-sectional associations between discrimination and psychological resources using two national probability samples of adults: the National Survey of American Life and t...

This study sought to examine the structural relationships of parentschr('39') level of education and their goal orientation with motivation, self-concept and academic self-efficacy of adolescent female students. A number of 601 female 10th graders responded to the research instruments, including the Students Perception of Parents Goal Orientation Questionnaire (Hruda & Midgley, 1997), Motivated...

abstractdeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. this study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening achievem...

BACKGROUND The achievement goal theory defines two major foci of students' learning goals (1) primarily interested in truly mastering a task (mastery orientation), and (2) striving to show ones competences to others (performance orientation). The present study is undertaken to better understand if and how health profession students' goal orientations change during the undergraduate program and ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Drawing on modern diathesis-stress theories which suggest a multiplicative approach to determine one's personal vulnerability status, we posit that the degree of an individual's vulnerability for using self-handicapping strategies in case of self-threatening events depends on the interaction between different vulnerability and protective factors. In this article, we assume...