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Reciprocal Relationships between Depressive Symptoms and Academic Amotivation in College Students
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Gaoyuan Cui; Bo Shen; Jin Bo – Educational Psychology, 2024
College students face much instability and challenge across multiple spheres of functioning. The transition from late youth into early adulthood with new social, scholastic, and living environments presents heightened risks for destabilising academic motivation and mental health. Using the taxonomy of multidimensional academic amotivation, this…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Correlation
Understanding the Relations between Achievement Goals and Self-Regulated Learning: A Multiple Goal Perspective
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Sungjun Won; Christopher A. Wolters – Educational Psychology, 2024
The primary objective was to investigate the relations between college students' achievement goals and their engagement in self-regulated learning using a person-centered approach. College students (N = 364) completed surveys that assessed mindset, self-efficacy, anxiety, achievement goals, and self-regulated learning. Latent profile analyses…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Profiles
Testing the Mastery-Avoidance Construct in Achievement Goal Theory: A Meta-Analytic Confirmatory Factor Analysis (MA-CFA) of Two Achievement Goals Scales
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Strunk, Kamden K.; Lester, Wilson S.; Lane, Forrest C.; Hoover, Payton D.; Betties, Jasmine S. – Educational Psychology, 2021
Achievement goal theory is a popular theoretical framework that has been widely used to understand the goals students hold regarding their academic work. This theoretical model has been subject to an ongoing debate regarding the number and nature of constructs it includes. Notable in such debates has been the inclusion or exclusion of…
Descriptors: Surveys, Rating Scales, Questionnaires, Academic Achievement
Whether and How Can a Growth Mindset Intervention Help Students in a Non-Western Culture? Evidence from a Field Experiment in China
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Huang, Zhen; Wei, Xiangdong; Lu, Runhao; Shi, Jiannong – Educational Psychology, 2022
An increasing amount of research has indicated that the effectiveness of growth mindset (GM) intervention is sensitive to population characteristics. However, few studies have investigated whether GM interventions can be leveraged to promote academic performance among non-westerners such as Chinese students. Attuning to the Chinese background, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4
Biased Self-Estimation of Maths Competence and Subsequent Motivation and Achievement: Differential Effects for High- and Low-Achieving Students
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Lee, Eunju J. – Educational Psychology, 2021
The present study investigated whether self-estimation bias in maths competence was associated with motivational costs or benefits, concurrently and prospectively, and whether these associations depended on students' achievement levels. Participants were 2,807 seventh grade students who were reassessed after 2 years to examine the longitudinal…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Efficacy, Competence, Bias
Internal/External Frame of Reference Model and Dimensional Comparison Theory: A Novel Exploration of Their Applicability among Arab High School Students
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Stocker, Joana; Abu-Hilal, Maher; Hermena, Ehab; AlJassmi, Maryam; Barbato, Mariapaola – Educational Psychology, 2021
This study aims at testing the generalisability of Marsh's Internal/External (I/E) frame of reference model as well as its Dimensional Comparison Theory (DCT) extension in a sample of United Arab Emirates (UAE) high school students. Relationship between self-concept and achievement in Arabic, English and mathematics were explored. A sample of 990…
Descriptors: Arabs, High School Students, Self Concept, Academic Achievement