Perceptions of Competence, Implicit Theory of Ability, Perception of Motivational Climate, and Achievement Goals: A Test of the Trichotomous Conceptualization of Endorsement of Achievement Motivation in the Physical Education Setting

2002 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Cury ◽  
D. Da Fonséca ◽  
M. Rufo ◽  
P. Sarrazin
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Motivational Climate ◽  
Implicit Theory ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals ◽  
Performance Dimension

To test and extend the conceptualization of the endorsement of achievement goals in the physical education setting Mastery, Performance-approach, and Performance-approach goals, Perception of the physical education competence, Implicit theory about sport ability, and Perception of the motivational climate were assessed among 682 boys attending five French schools. Analysis indicated that (1) Performance-approach goals were positively associated with perception of physical education Competence, Entity beliefs about sport ability, the Performance dimension of the motivational climate, and negatively associated with Incremental beliefs about sport ability. (2) Mastery goals were positively associated with perception of physical education Competence, Incremental beliefs about sport ability, the Mastery dimension of the motivational climate, and negatively associated with the Performance dimension of the motivational climate. Also, (3) Performance-avoidance goals were positively associated with Entity beliefs about sport ability and the Performance dimension of the motivational climate; these goals were negatively associated with Incremental beliefs about sport ability and perception of physical education Competence. These results clearly attested to the validity of the trichotomous model in the physical education setting.

scholarly journals Setting Lower Limits High: The Role of Boundary Goals in Achievement Motivation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine S. Corker ◽  
Brent Donnellan
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Lower Boundary ◽  
Opposite Pattern ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mastery Avoidance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals ◽  
Lower Limits ◽  
Mastery Approach

Boundary goals specify the minimum performance level that an individual must attain to subjectively experience success. The current research integrates boundary goals into the hierarchical model of achievement motivation (A. Elliot, 2006) by positing that boundary goals are a sub-goal in the goal hierarchy. We predicted that performance approach goals would be associated with higher boundary goals, whereas performance avoidance goals would be associated with lower boundary goals. We further predicted that boundary goals would mediate the association between achievement goals and performance, independent of other target goals (i.e., levels of aspiration). We also evaluated whether boundary goals served a similar role in explaining associations between mastery goals and performance. We tested these predictions by tracking the performance of 347 college students across the semester. As predicted, performance approach goals were positively associated with boundary goals (beta = .32) whereas performance avoidance goals were negatively associated with boundary goals (beta = -.11). Further, we found that mastery approach goals had positive associations with boundary goals (beta = .29) whereas the opposite pattern occurred for mastery avoidance goals (beta = -.25). Boundary goals were positively linked to exam scores (beta = .32) and mediated the associations between performance approach, mastery approach, and mastery avoidance goals and grades. These statistical effects were independent of the effects of level of aspiration. In short, boundary goals seem to play an important role in the achievement motivation process and may therefore serve as a potentially useful focus for interventions.

Achievement Goals, Social Goals, and Students’ Reported Persistence and Effort in High School Physical Education

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianmin Guan ◽  
Ping Xiang ◽  
Ron McBride ◽  
April Bruene
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
High School Physical Education ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mastery Avoidance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between achievement goals and social goals and explored how students’ achievement goals and social goals might affect their reported persistence and effort expended toward physical education in high school settings. Participants were 544 students from two high schools in the southwest U.S. Multiple regression analysis revealed that social responsibility goals represented the greatest contributor to students’ expenditure of persistence and effort toward physical education. This was followed by mastery-approach goals, mastery-avoidance goals, and performance-approach goals. In addition, girls reported significantly higher values on both social-relationship goals and responsibility goals than did boys. Findings revealed that students had multiple goals for wanting to succeed in physical education; using both achievement goals and social goals when studying student motivation and achievement in high school physical education settings is recommend.

scholarly journals Achievement goals model validation: Is the 2X2 better than the Trichotomous?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Bilson Simamora ◽  
Elisabeth Vita Mutiarawati
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
New Students ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals ◽  
Mastery Approach

<span>Achievement motivation evolved fast in the educational field. In this development, the trichotomous and the 2X2 models received myriad attention from the educational specialist. However, there is a debate about which is better between the two models. This study aimed to intercede this debate and argue that the study's duration should be accounted for in the validation. Approach goals should dominate new students' achievement goals, and old students' achievement goals will show the balance of approach and avoidance goals. For these reasons, this study gathers the data from 350 new students and 203 old students. Confirmatory factor analysis reveals that the trichotomous is the best model for new student segments. While for the old student segment, the 2X2 model shows its efficacy. Therefore, for the new students' segment, achievement goals consist of mastery-approach, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals. For the old students, besides those three-goal orientations, mastery-avoidance goals are also included. As expected, the independent sample t-test shows that new students have higher mastery-approach and performance-approach goals than old students have. Self-efficacy is more influential in the new than old student segments, as shown by simple linear regression. This study is still stuck to a single cross-sectional design. Further research can utilize longitudinal research with segmental-based analysis and pay attention to gender, major, social class, or other potential moderation variables.</span>

Achievement Goals and Their Relations to Self-Reported Persistence/Effort in Secondary Physical Education: A Trichotomous Achievement Goal Framework

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bulent Agbuga ◽  
Ping Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Mastery Goals ◽  
8Th Graders ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals

Guided by the trichotomous achievement goal framework, the current study examined mastery, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals and their relations to self-reported persistence/effort among Turkish students in secondary physical education. Two hundred twenty-nine students in grades 8 and 11 completed questionnaires assessing their achievement goals and self-reported persistence/effort in secondary physical education. Results of this study revealed that 8th-graders scored significantly higher than 11th-graders on performance-approach goals and self-reported persistence/effort. Mastery goals and performance-approach goals emerged as significant positive predictors of students’ self-reported persistence/effort, but their predictive power varied by grade. Overall, results of this study provide empirical support for the trichotomous achievement goal framework in the context of secondary school physical education.

scholarly journals Achievement goals and perfectionism of high school students

Psihologija ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-534 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milica Milojevic ◽  
Snezana Stojiljkovic ◽  
Jelisaveta Todorovic ◽  
Kristina Kasic
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
Parental Criticism ◽  
Mastery Goals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals

This research has been investigating one of the most contemporary approaches of achievement motivation - Achievement Goal Theory, which uses the construct of achievement goals. The construct of achievement goals involves three types of achievement goals: mastery goals, performance approach goals and performance avoidance goals. The main goal of the research was to examine correlation between perfectionism and its aspects with particular types of achievement goals. Also, the goal was to investigate the difference concerning gender regarding the achievement goals. The sample consisted of 200 senior year high school participants. The following instruments were used: Multi-dimensional scale of perfectionism (MSP) and Test of achievement goals (TCP). The research results indicate that there is significant positive correlation between: perfectionism with performance approach goals and performance avoidance goals, concern over mistakes and parental expectations with performance approach goals and performance avoidance goals, personal standards and organization with mastery goals and performance approach goals, parental criticism and doubts about action with performance avoidance goals. Significant negative correlation was found between parental criticism and mastery goals. The results concerning the second goal indicates the female subjects have higher average scores in mastery goals.

scholarly journals How Proponents and Opponents Influence Achievement Motivation: The Role of the Anticipated Emotions of Other People

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Bilson Simamora
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Avoidance Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mastery Avoidance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Anticipated Emotions ◽  
Mastery Approach

There are countless studies about the influence of other people’s emotions on individuals' behavior. However, the influence of proponents' and opponents' future emotions on achievement motivation remains unclear. This study aims to fill this gap. Therefore, departing from the emotional intelligence theory, the author materializes the anticipated emotions of other people concept and tests it using a static group experimental design with success and failure scenarios, involving 203 participants chosen judgmentally. When reminded of the proponents' joyfulness caused by their success, the Mann-Whitney U test with normal approximation, supported by the Monte Carlo estimation, shows that the mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals of the experimental group are enhanced. Whereas, when reminded that they would be envied and make the opponents feel distressed, the performance-approach goals are improved. In the failure scenario, when the participants were directed to the proponents' distress, as a response to their failure, the four components of the achievement goals are increased: mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance. However, the opponents' joyfulness, anticipated as a malicious schadenfreude to the participants' failure, is only successful in stimulating the performance-avoidance goals.  A Bayesian estimate with 5,000 times bootstrapping reveals that self-efficacy mediates the influence of the proponents' anticipated joyfulness on the mastery-approach fully, and on the performance-approach goals in a complementary way. Complementary mediation is also apparent in the impact of the proponents' distress on the mastery-approach and mastery-avoidance goals. Above all, love for the proponents is more potent than hatred from social environments for increasing the achievement motivation. Further research is encouraged to replicate this study with different social behavior.

scholarly journals Higher Education Instructors’ Usage of and Learning from Student Evaluations of Teaching – Do Achievement Goals Matter?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Hein ◽  
Stefan Janke ◽  
Raven Rinas ◽  
Martin Daumiller ◽  
Markus Dresel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Work Avoidance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals

Identifying what motivates higher education instructors in their self-regulated learning from stu-dent evaluations of teaching (SET) is important for improving future teaching. In a longitudinal online field study, we investigated how higher education instructors’ achievement goals predict the use of SET(s), processing its results and learning from it. We expected beneficial effects of learning (approach and avoidance) goals and performance approach goals, while performance avoidance goals and work avoidance goals should be detrimental for the learning process. In to-tal, 407 higher education instructors with teaching commitments reported their achievement goals. Out of these participants, 152 instructors voluntarily conducted SET(s) and subsequently reported their learning intentions regarding this student feedback. Using structural equation modelling, we found that learning avoidance goals were positively associated with conducting SET(s) and learning approach goals were positively associated with learning intentions. These findings highlight the importance of learning goals for instructors’ use of SET(s).

Depressive Symptoms and Achievement Goals: Parental Rejection as a Moderator

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 1369-1396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Măirean ◽  
Loredana R. Diaconu-Gherasim
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Parental Rejection ◽  
Mastery Goals ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Maternal Rejection ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals

This present study investigated the longitudinal relations between depressive symptoms and achievement goals and whether maternal and paternal rejection moderated these relations. A sample of 436 early adolescents ([Formula: see text]age = 13.19, 58.33% girls) filled in scales measuring the depressive symptoms (Time 1), parental rejection (Time 2; 1 year later), and achievement goals (Time 2). Early adolescents’ depressive symptoms were positively related to performance-avoidance goals and negatively related to mastery and performance-approach goals. Furthermore, the father’s rejection was positively related to the adolescents’ performance-avoidance and negatively related to mastery goals, whereas maternal rejection was not related to achievement goals. Finally, maternal rejection moderated the association between depressive symptoms and performance-avoidance goals 1 year later. The implications of these results for future studies and educational practices are discussed.

Achievement Goals and Physical Self-Perceptions of Adolescent Athletes

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zisan Kazak Cetinkalp
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Adolescent Athletes ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mastery Avoidance ◽  
Approach Goals ◽  
Avoidance Goals ◽  
Mastery Approach

The relationship between achievement goals and physical self-perceptions of adolescent athletes was examined in this study. Participants were 208 adolescent athletes with a mean age of 16.35 + 0.48 years. Independent samples t tests, Pearson correlations, and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The results showed that female athletes' mastery-avoidance scores were higher than male athletes'. Mastery-approach goals were related to sports competence and global physical self-concept. Performance-approach goals were associated with sports competence, global physical self-concept, and global self-esteem. Performance-avoidance goals were related only to sports competence. In addition, the mastery-approach goal was predicted by global physical self-concept, and performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals were positively predicted by sports competence.

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