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Integration in the Achievement Motivation Literature and the Hierarchical Model of Achievement Motivation
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Elliot, Andrew J.; Sommet, Nicolas – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Integration is a valuable yet underutilized process in scientific literatures, including the achievement motivation literature. In this piece, we advocate for and illustrate the benefits of giving integration a central place within the achievement motivation literature. We pay particular attention to the hierarchical model of achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Models, Research Methodology
Goal Complexes: Integrating Achievement Goals as Standards and Self-Attributed Motives as Reasons Underlying Goal Pursuit
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Tan, Ser Hong; Liem, Gregory Arief D.; Ramos, Rufino L., III; Elliot, Andrew J.; Nie, Youyan; Pang, Joyce S. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Goal complexes, which are formed by pairing standards of competence strivings with their underlying reasons, are essential to an understanding of achievement goal regulation. This paper examines goal complexes that cross other-approach and other-avoidance goals with the approach-avoidance dimensions of Big Three motives as underlying reasons. 220…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students
Psychological Need Support as a Predictor of Intrinsic and External Motivation: The Mediational Role of Achievement Goals
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Chen, Chen; Elliot, Andrew J.; Sheldon, Kennon M. – Educational Psychology, 2019
The present research sought to integrate self-determination theory and the achievement goal approach to achievement motivation by examining achievement goals as mediators of the link between psychological need support and both intrinsic and external motivation. We found support for our proposed integration, as mastery-approach and…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Achievement Need, Academic Achievement, Self Determination
The Role of Personal Best (PB) and Dichotomous Achievement Goals in Students' Academic Motivation and Engagement: A Longitudinal Investigation
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Martin, Andrew J.; Elliot, Andrew J. – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study assessed the role of prior personal best goals in predicting subsequent academic motivation and engagement. A total of 1160 high school students participated in a longitudinal survey study exploring the extent to which personal best and mastery and performance (dichotomous) achievement goals predict students' academic motivation and…
Descriptors: Role, Achievement Need, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation