The goals behind performance goals

By Tim Urdan, Miranda Mestas. 2006

278 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Maarten Vansteenkiste
2. A. Elliot
3. J. Reeve
4. Kou Murayama
5. Reinhard Pekrun
6. W. Lens
7. Bart Soenens
8. Corwin Senko

In Social Psychology

1. Maarten Vansteenkiste
2. A. Elliot
3. Bart Soenens
4. J. Reeve
5. W. Lens
6. Kou Murayama
7. Reinhard Pekrun
8. Edward L. Deci

Citations in the corpus

• The Relationships between Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, and Achievement, Along Elementary School (2014, background): “…findings (Grant & Dweck, 2003; Lemos, 1996; Mouratidis, Lens, & Sideridis, 2010; Tuominen-Soini, Salmela-Aro, & Niemivirta, 2008; Urdan, 2004; Urdan & Mestas, 2006) have distinguished between competitively pursuing good grades or anticipating grades as an extrinsic incentive, from just to…”
• Cognitive Processing of Self-Report Items in Educational Research: Do They Think What We Mean? (2007, methodology): “The current approach goes further than the exploratory qualitative technique used by Urdan and Mestas (2006).”
• The Strength of the Relation Between Performance-Approach and Performance-Avoidance Goal Orientations: Theoretical, Methodological, and Instructional Implications (2012, background): “(Urdan & Mestas, 2006, p. 363) In other words, the students may be mentally transforming performance-avoidance items into the approach form.”
• A Review of Self-Report and Alternative Approaches in the Measurement of Student Motivation (2009, background): “Furthermore, self-report items commonly merge the goal with the underlying reason, even though students have a variety of underlying reasons for adopting and pursuing particular goals (Elliot and Murayama 2008; Urdan and Mestas 2006 ).”
• Sense of Belonging and Self-Regulated Learning: Testing Achievement Goals as Mediators (2018, result): “It seems likely that the college students in our study interpreted performance-avoidance goals in a way that was similar to performance-approach goals (Urdan & Mestas, 2006).”
• Perceived competence moderates the relation between performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals (2012, background): “…Psychological Association 2012, Vol. 104, No. 3, 806–819 0022-0663/12/$12.00 DOI: 10.1037/a0027179 806 mance-avoidance goals: The two goals often exhibit a moderate to high positive correlation (Bong, 2009; Duda, 2005; Murayama, Elliot, & Yamagata, 2011; Roeser, 2004; Urdan & Mestas, 2006).”