title: Motivational beliefs, values, and goals.
abstract: This chapter reviews the recent research on motivation, beliefs, values, and goals, focusing on developmental and educational psychology. The authors divide the chapter into four major sections: theories focused on expectancies for success (self-efficacy theory and control theory), theories focused on task value (theories focused on intrinsic motivation, self-determination, flow, interest, and goals), theories that integrate expectancies and values (attribution theory, the expectancy-value models of Eccles et al., Feather, and Heckhausen, and self-worth theory), and theories integrating motivation and cognition (social cognitive theories of self-regulation and motivation, the work by Winne & Marx, Borkowski et al., Pintrich et al., and theories of motivation and volition). The authors end the chapter with a discussion of how to integrate theories of self-regulation and expectancy-value models of motivation and suggest new directions for future research.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, USA. jeccles@isr.umich.edu
authors.forename: Jacquelynne S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Eccles
authors.forename: Allan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wigfield
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003469:Culture; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D011582:Psychological Theory; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012945:Social Values