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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
Examining the Role of Perceived Classroom Goal Structures and Parents' Goals in ESL/EFL Learners' Achievement Goals, Engagement and Achievement
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Wang, Jing; Bai, Barry; Nie, Youyan – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
This study examined the role of perceived classroom goal structures and parent's goals in predicting students' achievement goals, engagement and achievement. Mastery goals were predicted by both classroom and parents' mastery goals. Both performance-approach goals and performance-avoidance goals were predicted by both classroom and parents'…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Achievement
Extending Antecedents of Achievement Goals: The Double-Edged Sword Effect of Social-Oriented Achievement Motive and Gender Differences
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Nie, Youyan; Liem, Gregory Arief D. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Underpinned by the hierarchical model of approach and avoidance motivation, the study examined the differential relations of individual-oriented and social-oriented achievement motives to approach and avoidance achievement goals (mastery-approach, performance-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-avoidance). A total of 570 Chinese high school…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Motivation, Goal Orientation, Objectives
Primary and Secondary Students' Motivation in Learning English: Grade and Gender Differences
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Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Lau, Shun; Nie, Youyan – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2011
Student motivation may have significant influences on essential academic outcomes. However, students' motivation may decline as they grow older. This study examined six motivation constructs (self-efficacy, interest, mastery goal orientation, engagement, avoidance coping, and effort withdrawal) of students from 78 schools in Singapore (N = 4214)…
Descriptors: Females, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation
The Role of Self-Efficacy, Task Value, and Achievement Goals in Predicting Learning Strategies, Task Disengagement, Peer Relationship, and Achievement Outcome
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Liem, Arief Darmanegara; Lau, Shun; Nie, Youyan – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
Adopting a combination of expectancy-value and achievement goal theories, this study examined the role of self-efficacy, task value, and achievement goals in students' learning strategies, task disengagement, peer relationship, and English achievement outcome. A sample of 1475 Year-9 students participated in the study. A structural equation model…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies, Achievement Need, Peer Relationship
Interplay between Personal Goals and Classroom Goal Structures in Predicting Student Outcomes: A Multilevel Analysis of Person-Context Interactions
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Lau, Shun; Nie, Youyan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
This study examined cross-level interactions between personal goals and classroom goal structures, as well as their additive contributions to predicting math achievement, engagement, interest, effort withdrawal, and avoidance coping, using a sample of 3,943 Grade 5 students from 130 classrooms. Results of hierarchical linear modeling showed that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Prediction, Outcomes of Education