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Understanding the Association between Future Time Perspective and Self-Regulated Learning through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory
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de Bilde, Jerissa; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Lens, Willy – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The present cross-sectional research examined a process underlying the positive association between holding an extended future time perspective (FTP) and learning outcomes through the lens of self-determination theory. High school students and university students (N = 275) participated in the study. It was found that students with an extended FTP…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Time Perspective, Anxiety, Metacognition
The Role of Different Types of Instrumentality in Motivation, Study Strategies, and Performance: Know Why You Learn, So You'll know What You Learn!
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Simons, Joke; Dewitte, Siegfried; Lens, Willy – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Background: Two theories in the field of motivation and achievement, namely the future time perspective theory and goal theory, result in conflicting recommendations for enhancing students' motivation, because of their differential emphasis on the task at hand and on the future consequences of a task. Aims: We will present a framework consisting…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Rewards, Time Perspective, Study Habits
Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Goal Contents in Self-Determination Theory: Another Look at the Quality of Academic Motivation
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Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Lens, Willy; Deci, Edward L. – Educational Psychologist, 2006
Examination of motivational dynamics in academic contexts within self-determination theory has centered primarily around both the motives (initially intrinsic vs. extrinsic, later autonomous vs. controlled) that regulate learners' study behavior and the contexts that promote or hinder these regulations. Less attention has been paid to the goal…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Academic Aspiration, Study Habits, Student Behavior
From Duty to Desire: The Role of Students' Future Time Perspective and Instrumentality Perceptions for Study Motivation and Self-Regulation.
Lens, Willy; Simons, Joke; Dewitte, Siegfried – 2002
This chapter furthers the discussion of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation by contending that learning and studying are multidetermined and that intrinsic motivation is typically accompanied by extrinsic motivation. The chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of future time perspective as a cognitive-motivational personality…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Goal Orientation
Study Persistence and Academic Achievement as a Function of the Type of Competing Tendencies
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Lens, Willy; Lacante, Marlies; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Herrera, Dora – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2005
In order to understand and predict students' achievement and persistence at learning activities, many contemporary motivational models consider how much students are motivated for their school work. However, students' achievement and persistence might not only be affected by their amount of study motivation, but also by the motivation to engage in…
Descriptors: Persistence, Leisure Time, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation