title: A model for achievement motives, goal orientations, intrinsic interest, and academic achievement.
abstract: This study investigated the effects of approach and avoidance achievement motives (the motive to achieve success and the motive to avoid failure) on three goal orientations (mastery, performance-approach, performance-avoidance goals) and the effects of goal orientations on intrinsic interest in learning and academic achievement for 157 tenth and 135 eleventh grade students of a Japanese girls' high school. Structural equation modeling indicated that mastery goals arose mainly from the motive to achieve success; however, the positive relation between the motive to avoid failure and mastery goals was also found. Performance-approach goals were related both the motive to achieve success and the motive to avoid failure. Performance-avoidance goals arouse mainly from the motive to avoid failure; however, the positive relation between the motive to achieve success and these goals was found. Mastery goals positively correlated with intrinsic interest and academic achievement, and scores on both performance-approach goals and performance-avoidance goals had no significant effects on either intrinsic or academic achievement.
authors: Department of Psychology, Doshisha University, Kamigyo Kyoto 602, Japan 602-85801. atanaka@psychology.doshisha.ac.jp
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authors: Tanaka
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authors: Yamauchi
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009042:Motivation; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires