Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2018
Abstract
This research aimed to study the relationships between students’ future goals (FGs) and their immediate achievement goal orientations (AGOs) among 5733 Singaporean secondary school students (M age = 14.18, SD = 1.26; 53% boys). To this end, we hypothesized that the relationships between like valenced FGs and AGOs (both intrinsic or both extrinsic) will be stronger than those of opposite valenced FGs and AGOs (intrinsic–extrinsic) and tested two alternative models: Model A positing the prediction of AGOs by FGs and Model B positing the prediction of FGs by AGOs. Structural equation modeling showed the heuristic superiority of Model B in which intrinsic FGs (career-, society-, and family-oriented) were more strongly related to mastery-approach goal orientation than to performance-approach goal orientation and extrinsic FGs (fame- and wealth-oriented) were more strongly related to performance-approach goal orientation than to mastery-approach goal orientation. The findings suggest that, to enhance school motivation, teachers should encourage students to adopt intrinsic AGOs and FGs.
Keywords
Future Time Perspective, Future goal, Achievement goal orientation, Motivation, Singapore, secondary school students
Discipline
Asian Studies | Educational Psychology | Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Contemporary Educational Psychology
Volume
35
Issue
4
First Page
264
Last Page
279
ISSN
0361-476X
Identifier
10.1016/j.cedpsych.2010.04.004
Publisher
Elsevier: 24 months
Citation
LEE, Jie Qi, MCINERNEY, Dennis M., LIEM, Gregory Arief D., & ORTIGA, Yasmin Y..(2018). The relationship between future goals and achievement goal orientations: An intrinsic-extrinsic motivation perspective. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 35(4), 264-279.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2745
Copyright Owner and License
Publisher
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2010.04.004