Mastery‑Oriented Students Are Less Stubborn

Goal orientation theory identifiesmastery-oriented people as adaptive and highly persistent when pursuing a goal. Performance-oriented people are described as being less persistent, and tend to show more maladaptive responses. However, previous works that have studied persistence have not always fou...

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Autores: Romero Velázquez, Miriam, Hernández López, José Manuel, Juola, James F., Casadevante de la Fuente, Cristina, Santacreu Mas, José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositorio:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/707341
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10486/707341
https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43076-023-00291-x
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Goal orientation
Objective test
Persistence
Stubbornness
Psicología
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Sumario:Goal orientation theory identifiesmastery-oriented people as adaptive and highly persistent when pursuing a goal. Performance-oriented people are described as being less persistent, and tend to show more maladaptive responses. However, previous works that have studied persistence have not always found that performance-oriented participants show the least persistence. In addition, it is not easy to conclude if the persistence measured in the studies implies a stubborn response and therefore if it is a maladaptive response. In this work, we classify participants as mastery- or performance-oriented using an objective test and we employ a behavioral task to study persistence defined as stubbornness. When studying response patterns, we found that performance-oriented students were more stubborn. The behavioral analysis performed in this work offers complement and rich information and provides empirical support for the goal orientation theory