Family and individual correlates of academic goal orientations: social context differences in South Africa.
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.
Marjoribanks
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University of Adelaide, Australia. kevin.marjoribanks@adelaide.edu.au
Mboya
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D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D012649:Self Concept; D012923:Social Class; D013019:South Africa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires