scholarly journals Children’s and Mothers’ Achievement Goal Orientations and Self-Efficacy: Dyadic Contributions to Students’ Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Versavia Curelaru ◽  
Daniela Muntele-Hendreș ◽  
Georgeta Diac ◽  
Diana-Sînziana Duca
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
The Impact

Starting from the basic idea that identifying predictive family factors for children’s well-being is among the levels of the psychology of sustainable human development, our study aimed to investigate the impact of mothers’ achievement goal orientations and parental self-efficacy on their children’s academic well-being, considering children’s own achievement goals as a mediator variable. The entire sample comprised 350 participants: 175 children (42.86% boys) and their respective mothers. Children were enrolled in the 4th grade (n = 85; Mage = 10.44, SD = 0.49), in the 8th grade (n = 62; Mage = 14.45, SD = 0.53), and in the 12th grade (n = 28; Mage = 18.39, SD = 0.62). The results indicated that mothers’ motivational orientations had a strong effect on their children’s corresponding motivational orientations. Mothers’ achievement goal orientations and parental self-efficacy had significant effects on children’s well-being, mediated by children’s goal orientations. Children’s well-being was positively predicted by mothers’ mastery and performance-approach goal orientations, with variations between age groups. The importance of the parental motivational orientations in the development of the children’s corresponding orientations and well-being suggests that changing academic adaptation might be possible by operating early interventions at the parents’ level. Further research is necessary to explore why performance-approach goals had a positive impact on well-being in this cultural context, as previous studies revealed that this type of goal orientation may be detrimental to well-being.

Investigating the Relationships Among Students' Chemistry Motivations, Achievement Goal Orientation, Classroom Engagement, Gender, Class and Positive Teacher Behaviours Through Structural Equation Modeling

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-205
Author(s):  
Fatma Alkan
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientation ◽  
Classroom Engagement ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
School Students

The study aimed to investigate how high school students' achievement goal orientation, positive teacher behaviour, classroom engagement, gender and class perceptions are related to chemistry motivation. The research was designed using relational survey model. The sample consisted of 688 high school students. Chemistry motivation questionnaire, achievement goal orientations scale, positive teacher behaviours scale and classroom engagement inventory were used as data collection tools. The correlations between the variables were examined using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Results showed that there were positive and significant correlations between chemistry motivation and achievement goal orientations, achievement goal orientations and positive teacher behaviours, classroom engagement and positive teacher behaviours. Negative and significant correlations were also found to exist between achievement goal orientation and classroom engagement, positive teacher behaviours and chemistry motivation. Achievement goal orientations and positive teacher behaviours were also found to be significantly related to class engagement.

scholarly journals Doseganje zaposljivosti pri starajoči delovni sili; vloga starosti in doseganje ciljnih usmeritev

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nena Hribar ◽  
Polona Šprajc
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Aging Workforce ◽  
Significant Relation

The aging workforce challenges companies to keep their aging employees employable in the workforce. This paper gives an indication as to which employees are more likely to be interested in further learning and employability. Specifically, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of chronological age and achievement goal orientations for informal and formal learning and employability. It was found that informal learning has a significant positive relation with several dimensions of employability. Furthermore, mastery-approach goal orientation also shows a significant positive relation with informal learning and employability. In addition, age had no significant relation with the achievement goal orientations. The paper stresses the need to consider characteristics other than chronological age, such as goal orientations, when considering employees’ learning behavior and employability.

scholarly journals The Association Among Achievement Goal Orientations, Academic Performance, and Academic Well-Being Among Chinese Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing-lin Li ◽  
Ji-yang Zhao ◽  
Jing Tian ◽  
Tao Sun ◽  
Chen-xi Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chinese Medical Students ◽  
Subjective Learning

Learning motivation is a significant factor that ensures quality in medical education, and might affect the academic performance and well-being of medical students. This study aimed to explore the status of achievement goal orientations among medical students in China and to further identify the association among academic performance, academic well-being, and achievement goal orientations. Data were collected through a cross-sectional, anonymous survey conducted with 3,511 respondents (effective response rate = 81.7%), from four medical universities in China, and demographic factors, achievement goal orientations, academic performance, and academic well-being were assessed. The average score of achievement goal orientations of Chinese medical students suggested a difference in demographic factors, including sex, year of study, experience of leadership cadre, and family income. Both mastery and performance-avoidance goals were associated with academic performance, subjective academic stress, subjective learning adaptability, subjective sleep quality, and subjective well-being. Performance-approach goals were related to academic performance, subjective academic stress, and subjective learning adaptability. The achievement goal orientations of the medical students in this study were at a middle level. The findings emphasize the importance of mastery goals for promoting the academic performance and well-being of medical students. More care and attention toward achievement goal orientations can be beneficial for the improvement of the academic performance and well-being among medical students.

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 WORK CENTRALITY, GOALS AND PROFESSIONAL FULFILLMENT: INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN WORK AND CAREER

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ALÉXIA O. R. MOURA ◽  
LÍGIA C. O. SILVA
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientation ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Work Centrality ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Professional Fulfillment

ABSTRACT Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the degree to which the meaning of work, specifically the work centrality dimension, and the types of achievement goal orientations at work, predict professional fulfillment. Originality/value: The main contribution is to provide background for the identification of antecedents of a concept yet narrowly studied, which is professional fulfillment, signaling how counselors and organizations may facilitate the greater achievement of what is most valued in a career. We evidence the need to consider work an important sphere of life and to invest efforts in self-development to attain professional fulfillment. Design/methodology/approach: This is quantitative, survey-type research involving 140 people who have been working for at least 6 months. An online questionnaire was answered containing absolute and relative work centrality, achievement goal orientation at work and professional fulfillment scales, as well as socio-demographic questions. Data were analyzed using bivariate correlations and multiple regression analysis. Findings: Significant relationships of prediction were found between work centrality and professional fulfillment, as well as between one of the types of goal orientation and professional fulfillment. The results support two of the three predicted hypotheses, in addition to converging with previous research on the positive impacts of work centrality and the mastery approach orientation.

Mastery Goal Orientation Promoting Students’ Expectancies for Success And Self-Efficacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulseren SEKRETER
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Central Research ◽  
The Face ◽  
Goal Motivation ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of Achievement Goal Motivation Theory on students’expectancies for success, beliefs about ability, usefulness, importance and interest for the mathematics subject.Research asserts that possessing mastery-learning- oriented motivation has a more positive impact on students’expectancies for success, beliefs about ability, usefulness, importance and interest for mathematics. This researchapplies a quantitative method of study. Quantitative data have been analysed using Wigfield and Eccles’sExpectancy–Value Theory Achievement Questionnaire in order to assess student’s expectancies for success, abilitybeliefs and subjective task values. In the case study of a private Suleyman Sah University, Turkey, the focus of thequestionnaire has been derived from the central research question: How applications of Achievement Goal Theoryaffect students’ expectancies for success, beliefs about ability, usefulness, importance and interest for mathematics?The questionnaire was given to 40 students who were selected randomly in mathematics class. Also, in order toidentify students’ goal orientation, Elliot’s AGQ (Achievement Goal Questionnaire) was applied to those students.Their Achievement Goal motivation types were compared to their beliefs about ability, usefulness, importance andinterest for mathematics. Based on the quantitative data analysis, it was concluded that students with masterylearninggoal orientation have more expectancies for success, for them mathematics is a more useful and importantsubject, and, most importantly, they show more interest for the subject. These are very important components tobe persistent in the face of difficulties and obstacles on the way to achievement in teaching mathematics.

scholarly journals Dynamic Reciprocal Relations of Achievement Goal Orientations with Daily Experiences of Success and Failure: An Ambulatory Assessment Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas B. Neubauer ◽  
Andrea Schmidt ◽  
Florian Schmiedek ◽  
Judith Dirk
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Achievement Goal ◽  
Ambulatory Assessment ◽  
Achievement Goal Orientations ◽  
Mastery Goal ◽  
Daily Experiences

Achievement goals have been linked to achievement in various educational settings. The present work explored day-to-day variations in achievement goal orientations (mastery, performance-approach, performance-avoidance) and their associations with intrinsic motivation in school and daily experiences of success and failure. Ambulatory assessment data from 108 students in Grade 5 were collected, with daily assessments of achievement goal orientations in the morning, intrinsic motivation at school, and end-of-day reports of academic success and failure. Multilevel models showed that children reported more intrinsic motivation and more success on days when they reported greater mastery goal orientation. Mastery goal orientations were also linked to better academic achievement one year later. Performance-avoidance orientation was associated with more failure on the same day. Dynamic structural equation models indicated reciprocal associations between goal orientations and experiences of success and failure across days. Findings suggest meaningful within-person dynamics among goals orientations and daily academic success and failure.

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