Motivational Orientations of High-Achieving Students as Mediators of a Positive Percep-tion of a High-Achieving Classmate: Results from a Cross-national Study

The purpose of this study was to explore whether and in what ways high-achieving school students’ motivational orientations influence their perceptions of a fictitious future high-achieving classmate. The final sample consisted of the 396 highest achieving students out of a sample from 1794 seventh...

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Autores: Oh, Hyerim, Badia Martín, Maria del Mar, Blumen, Sheyla, Maakrun, Julie, Nguyena, Quoc An-Thu, Stack, Niamh, Sutherland, Margaret, Wormald, Catherine, Ziegler, Albert
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/143394
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/analesps.32.3.259451
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/143394
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Motivational orientation
High-achiever
Orientación motivacional
CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología::159.9 - Psicología
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Sumario:The purpose of this study was to explore whether and in what ways high-achieving school students’ motivational orientations influence their perceptions of a fictitious future high-achieving classmate. The final sample consisted of the 396 highest achieving students out of a sample from 1794 seventh and tenth graders from five countries: Australia, Peru, South Korea, Spain, and Vietnam. A series of stepwise regression models were used to test the hypothesis that positive perceptions of a high-achieving classmate might be mediated by an approach motivation, but not by an avoidance motivational orientation. The hypothesis was generally confirmed. Learning goal orientation and performance approach motiva-tion predicted positive perceptions of a high-achieving classmate’s intellec-tual ability, social qualities and popularity among peers, whereas a performance avoidance orientation was usually uncorrelated. However, sporadic exceptions have been found among the participants from Vietnam, South Korea, and Peru.

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