title: Students' Achievement Goals, Learning-Related Emotions and Academic Achievement.
abstract: In the present research, the recently proposed 3 × 2 model of achievement goals is tested and associations with achievement emotions and their joint influence on academic achievement are investigated. The study was conducted with 388 students using the 3 × 2 Achievement Goal Questionnaire including the six proposed goal constructs (task-approach, task-avoidance, self-approach, self-avoidance, other-approach, other-avoidance) and the enjoyment and boredom scales from the Achievement Emotion Questionnaire. Exam grades were used as an indicator of academic achievement. Findings from CFAs provided strong support for the proposed structure of the 3 × 2 achievement goal model. Self-based goals, other-based goals and task-approach goals predicted enjoyment. Task-approach goals negatively predicted boredom. Task-approach and other-approach predicted achievement. The indirect effects of achievement goals through emotion variables on achievement were assessed using bias-corrected bootstrapping. No mediation effects were found. Implications for educational practice are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Marko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lüftenegger
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klug
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harrer
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Langer
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spiel
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology: Work, Education and Economy, University of Vienna Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schober
keywords: achievement; achievement goal; boredom; emotion; enjoyment