Goal orientation, a theory that originated primarily in the educational and social psychology
fields, has emerged in the past two decades as a prominent theory in organizational …

Achievement goal theory originally defined performance-approach goals as striving to
demonstrate competence to outsiders by outperforming peers. The research, however, has …

Aside from test anxiety scales, measurement instruments assessing students' achievement
emotions are largely lacking. This article reports on the construction, reliability, internal …

Emotions are ubiquitous in academic settings, and they profoundly affect students' academic
engagement and performance. In this chapter, we summarize the extant research on …

Over the past 10 years, there has been growing recognition that emotions are central to
academic achievement strivings as well as students' and teachers' personality development …

In an experimental study (N= 153 high school students), we tested a theoretical model
positing that anticipated achievement feedback influences achievement goals and …

This brief synthesizes current findings on the many aspects of chronic student boredom, its
relationship with negative academic, emotional, and health outcomes, and what …

Motivation research is central to understanding why certain students exhibit high levels of
behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement with learning, and why others lack …

In two cross-sectional studies we investigated whether soccer players' well-being (Study 1)
and moral functioning (Studies 1 and 2) is related to performance-approach goals and to the …

We examined the three-way interactions among competence (actual and perceived),
individuals' dispositional goal orientation (task/ego), and perceived sport motivational …