Family and Individual Correlates of Academic Goal Orientations: Social Context Differences in South Africa

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Marjoribanks ◽  
Mzobanzi Mboya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
South Africans ◽  
And Performance

This study examined relationships between distal social contexts, parents' support for learning, self-concept, and adolescents' academic goal orientations. Data were collected from 435 female and 410 male 18-yr.-old South Africans. Multistage regression analyses indicated that family social status and rural/urban locality had unmediated relations with the adolescents' learning and performance goal orientations. In addition, parent and self-concept measures combined to have small independent associations with the adolescents' academic goal orientations.

scholarly journals An Alderfer perspective of the higher education restructuring in South Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Arnolds
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Peer Relations ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Organisational Commitment ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

The consequences of the restructuring of higher education in South Africa have not yet been thoroughly investigated. This study investigates the impact of the abovementioned restructuring on employee motivation (as measured by Alderfer’s ERG theory), organisational commitment and job performance. The results show that the respondents exhibit low levels of organisational commitment and low satisfaction with monetary remuneration and fringe benefits. The results, however, show high levels of satisfaction with growth factors, peer relations and performance intentions. These results are interpreted in the light of the multiple regression analyses conducted of the interrelationships among the variables. Opsomming Die nagevolge van die herkonstruksie van hër-onderwys in Suid-Afrika is nog nie deeglik ondersoek nie. Hierdie studie ondersoek die invloed wat bogenoemde rekonstruksie op die motivering (soos gemeet deur Alderfer se teorie), organisatories toegewydheid en werksprestasie van werknemers het. Die resultate toon dat die respondente lae vlakke van organisatoriese toegewydheid en lae tevredenheid ten opsigte van monetêre beloning en byvoordele tentoonstel. Die resultate toon egter hoë vlakke van tevredenheid in soverre groeifaktore, kollegiale verhoudinge en werkprestasievoornemens betref. Hierdie resultate word vertolk teen die agtergrond van veelvoudige regressie-analises wat op die inderlinge verwantskappe tussen die veranderlikes uitgevoer is.

Relations of Goal Orientations and Expectations on Multidimensional State Anxiety

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1107-1112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Newton ◽  
Joan Duda
Keyword(s):  
State Anxiety ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Cognitive State ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Performance Expectations ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Perspective Theory ◽  
Ego Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Tennis Skills

This study examined the relationships among task and ego orientation, expectations for success, and multidimensional state anxiety in a competitive sport situation. Subjects ( N = 107) enrolled in a tennis skills class were gender- and ability-matched and asked to play an eight game pro-set. One week prior to the match goal orientations were assessed. Immediately prior to competition multidimensional state anxiety and performance expectations were measured. Multiple regression analyses predicting multidimensional state anxiety revealed that somatic and cognitive state anxiety were only predicted by performance expectations. Also, lower ego orientation and positive match expectations were predictive of state self-confidence. Results are interpreted in light of goal perspective theory.

scholarly journals The effects of achievement goal orientations and safety climate on safe and unsafe behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
JiHee Jung ◽  
YoungSeok Park
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Unsafe Behaviors ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mastery Avoidance ◽  
Avoidance Goal

The purpose of this study is to test the effect of achievement goal orientations and safety climate on safe and unsafe behaviors. Safe behaviors were measured by observances and automatic safe behaviors, and unsafe behaviors by violations and mistakes. Three fifty employees from corporations were participated in this research. Both mastery approach goal and performance approach goal orientations have significant positive relations with the safe behaviors and negative relations with the unsafe behaviors, but both mastery avoidance goal and performance avoidance goal orientations have significant negative relations with the safe behaviors and positive relations with the unsafe behaviors. This results suggest to confirm the multiple goal perspective of the achievement goal orientation argued both mastery goal and performance goal orientations have relations with adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. Safety climates measured by five factors, management values, safety practice, safety training, safety communication, and supervisor leadership, were significant positive relations with safe behaviors and negative relations with unsafe behaviors. Specially safety climates have significantly stronger correlations with unintentional behaviors(automatic safe behavior and mistake) than intentional behaviors(observance and violation). The relative contributions of individual variables and organizational variables to safe and unsafe behaviors were discussed.

scholarly journals Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
Tamuka Chekero ◽  
Shannon Morreira
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Friendship Relations ◽  
Migration Theory ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Ways Of Being

This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa. To analyse these forms of mutuality, we draw on Southern African concepts rather than more conventional development or migration theory. We explore ways in which the Shona concept of hushamwari (translated as “friendship”) and the commensurate xiTsonga category of kuhanyisana (“to help each other to live”) allow for conviviality. Employing the concept of hushamwari enables us to move beyond binaries of kinship versus friendship relations and examine the ways in which people create reciprocal friendships that are a little “like kin.” We argue that the cross-cutting forms of collective personhood that underlie both Shona and Tsonga ways of being make it possible to form social bonds across national lines, such that mutuality can be made between people even where the wider social context remains antagonistic to “foreigners.”

When career success enhances employees' life satisfaction: different effects of two types of goal orientations

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Byoung Kwon Choi ◽  
Eun Young Nae
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Learning And Performance

PurposeDrawing on goal orientation theory, the authors propose a moderated mediation model, wherein objective career success is positively related to employees' life satisfaction through subjective career success moderated by learning and performance goal orientations.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 188 employees in South Korea. The hypotheses were tested with the moderated mediation regression analysis.FindingsThe results indicated that salary and promotion, as indicators of objective career success, were positively related to subjective career success. However, subjective career success mediated only the influence of salary, not promotion, on life satisfaction. Furthermore, the authors found that the indirect relationship between salary and life satisfaction via subjective career success was not significant for employees with high learning goal orientation but was significant for those with high performance goal orientation.Practical implicationsOrganizations need to understand that a higher salary and frequent promotions may not always be positively related to employees' satisfaction with career and personal life and should consider the types of goal orientations.Originality/valueThe authors’ consideration of goal orientation as a dispositional characteristic contributes to the comprehensive understanding of how employees' learning and performance goal orientations interact with objective career success in influencing their subjective career and life satisfaction.

THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG ACHIEVEMENT, GOAL ORIENTATION, AND STUDY STRATEGIES

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 823-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulqader A. Al-Emadi
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Study Strategies ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientation ◽  
Deep Processing ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Surface Processing ◽  
Mastery Goal ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Negative Predictor

The purpose of this study was to test a model of relations among goal orientation, study strategies and achievement. The model postulated that academic achievement and goal orientations are related where achievement is related positively to mastery and performance goals but related negatively to avoidance. The mastery goal was postulated as a positive predictor of deep processing but a negative predictor of disorganization; the performance goal was posited as a positive predictor of surface processing and deep processing and a negative predictor of disorganization. The performance avoidance goal was posited as a positive predictor of disorganization, but a negative predictor of deep processing and surface processing. As predicted, the mastery goal was a positive predictor of deep processing, the performance goal was a positive predictor of surface processing and avoidance was a positive predictor of disorganization. Achievement was a positive predictor of both surface processing and disorganization

Effectuation (EF) and Causation (CS) on Venture Performance and Entrepreneurs’ Dispositions Affecting the Reliance on EF and CS

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang Hyo Yoon ◽  
Erin Cho
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
And Performance

Abstract This study investigates whether and how different decision logics (i.e., effectuation and causation) are linked to venture performance (i.e., annual average growth in revenue and profit as well as subjective assessments of venture performance and funding status). We also examine how dispositional characteristics of an entrepreneur (i.e., learning and performance goal orientations, ambiguity tolerance, desire for change, and locus of control) influence the use of different decision logics. The results indicate that causation has a significantly positive effect on revenue growth as well as subjective assessments of venture performance and funding status, while effectuation has a significantly negative effect on profit growth. We find that learning-goal orientation leads to a greater reliance on effectuation, while performance-goal orientation increases the use of causation. An internal locus of control positively affects the reliance on both effectuation and causation, while the desire for change increases the use of effectuation.

scholarly journals Validation of a Measure of Learning and Performance Goal Orientations

1994 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Debacker Roedel ◽  
Gregory Schraw ◽  
Barbara S. Plake
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Learning And Performance

scholarly journals Learning Orientation, Working Smart, and Effective Selling

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Sujan ◽  
Barton A. Weitz ◽  
Nirmalya Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Learning Orientation ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Learning and performance goal orientations, two motivational orientations that guide salespeople's behavior, are related to working smart and hard. Working smart is defined as the engagement in activities that serve to develop knowledge of sales situations and utilize this knowledge in selling behavior. It is found that a learning goal orientation motivates working both smart and hard, whereas a performance goal orientation motivates only working hard. The goal orientations also are found to be alterable through supervisory feedback. Furthermore, self-efficacy, salespeople's confidence in their overall selling abilities, is found to moderate some of the relationships with the goal orientations.

scholarly journals Academic motivation and misconduct in two cultures: A comparative analysis of US and Ukrainian undergraduates

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M Stephens ◽  
Volodymyr Romakin ◽  
Mariya Yukhymenko
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Task Value ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Mastery Goal Orientation ◽  
Moral Beliefs ◽  
Academic Task

The present study explored differences between United States (US) and Ukrainian undergraduates (N=378) in terms of their academic motivation and its relation to their beliefs and behaviours related to academic misconduct. Specifically, this study investigated differences between US and Ukrainian students' task value, goal orientations, moral beliefs about cheating and engagement in cheating behaviour. Results revealed several significant differences between US and Ukrainian students. While similar in their level of academic task value and mastery goal orientation, Ukrainian students had reported being less performance goal oriented than their US counterparts. Ukrainian students also reported lower judgments about the wrongness of cheating and higher levels of engagement in cheating behaviour than US students. Finally, regression analyses revealed a significant culture x task value interaction on both cheating beliefs and behaviours: among Ukrainian undergraduates, increases in task value both strengthen beliefs about the wrongness of cheating and reduce engagement in it. These results and their theoretical and educational significance are discussed.

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