A meta-analytic examination of the goal orientation nomological net.

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A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Situationally Induced Achievement Goals on Task Performance (2015, background): “Although measures of the individual’s goal orientation often has been treated as a stable, traitlike individual-difference characteristic (e.g., Button et al., 1996; Payne et al., 2007), the achievement goal concept seems to be best suited for the context-specific level (cf. VandeWalle, 1997).”
Toward a Goal Orientation–Based Feedback-Seeking Typology (2014, background): “More recently, Payne, Youngcourt, and Beaubien (2007) found that the three types of goal orientation are relatively stable over time, suggesting that they may provide a dispositional basis for engendering behaviors such as feedback seeking.”
A meta-analytic review of the approach-avoidance achievement goals and performance relationships in the sport psychology literature (2015, background): “since Elliot and colleagues proposed and introduced measures for approach-avoidance goal dimension to the dichotomous goal framework, a number of studies in sport psychology(10) have appeared let alone hundreds of studies in other broad domains such as education(11) and organizational psychology.(12”