Less Is Sometimes More: Goal Content Matters

By Maarten Vansteenkiste, Joke Simons, W. Lens, Bart Soenens, Lennia Matos, M. Lacante. 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Motivation, Interest, and Positive Affect in Traditional and Nontraditional Undergraduate Students (2007, background): “Vansteenkiste et al. (2004) found that although a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic goals promoted better learning outcomes than extrinsic goals alone, adding an extrinsic goal to an already existing intrinsic goal interferes with participants’ performance and persistence.”
Students’ academic performance and various cognitive processes of learning: an integrative framework and empirical analysis (2010, background): “In a similar vein, the evidence pertaining to the relation between mastery goals and academic performance is inconclusive, with some studies highlighting a positive association (Tanaka & Yamauchi, 2001 ; Vansteenkiste, Simons, Lens, Soenens, & Matos, 2004 ), whereas some studies indicating null re”
An Investigation of Students Attitude and Motivation toward Online Learning (2007, background): “Vansteenkiste, Simons, Lens, Soenens, Matos, & Lacante (2004) demonstrated that students with intrinsic motivation processed reading material more deeply, achieved higher grades, and showed more persistence than students with extrinsic motivation.”
Materialism and Well–Being in the Uk and Chile: Basic Need Satisfaction and Basic Need Frustration as Underlying Psychological Processes (2014, background): “For instance, extrinsic and intrinsic goal contents may, respectively, preclude or foster task absorption, which, respectively, hampers or contributes to competence development (Vansteenkiste et al., 2004).”
Fostering Personal Meaning and Self-relevance: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective on Internalization (2018, background): “To illustrate, in one study (Vansteenkiste et al., 2004) participants were informed that reading more about recycling strategies was either useful in attaining both extrinsic goals (i.e., financial benefits) and intrinsic goals (i.e., contributing to the community) or in attaining one of these two…”
Relations between goals, self‐efficacy, critical thinking and deep processing strategies: a path analysis (2009, result): “Tanaka & Yamauchi, 2001 ; Vansteenkiste, Simons, Lens, Soenens, & Matos, 2004 ).”
Achievement Goals, Performance Contingencies, and Performance Attainment: An Experimental Test (2005, background): “…Crowson, Duke, & Akey, 2004; Miller, DeBacker, & Greene, 1999; Miller, Greene, Montalvo, Ravindran, & Nichols, 1996; Simons, Dewitte, & Lens, 2000; Vansteenkiste et al., 2004) and on instrumentalities and achievement goals as simultaneous predictors of performance (Malka & Covington, 2004; Miller…”
Self-determination for all language learners: New applications for formal language education (2019, background): “Models and instruments established in psychology (Vansteenkiste et al., 2004; Vansteenkiste, Timmermans, Lens, Soenens, & Van den Broeck, 2008) have been tested in language education as well, verifying the internal-external goal framing as valid and useful for explaining the instrumental reasons stu”