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DeBacker, Teresa K.; Heddy, Benjamin C.; Kershen, Julianna Lopez; Crowson, H. Michael; Looney, Kristyna; Goldman, Jacqueline A. – Educational Psychology, 2018
This investigation employed a longitudinal design to examine the influence of a one-shot growth mindset intervention on ninth-graders' implicit beliefs about intelligence and related achievement goals in four different samples. The intervention conformed to characteristics of 'wise interventions'. Participants' incremental beliefs about…
Descriptors: Intervention, Goal Orientation, Intelligence, Incidence
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Jones, Martin H.; McMichael, Stephanie N. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Previous work examines the relationships between personality traits and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. We replicate and extend previous work to examine how personality may relate to achievement goals, efficacious beliefs, and mindset about intelligence. Approximately 200 undergraduates responded to the survey with a 150 participants replicating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Learning Motivation, Replication (Evaluation)
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Sutantoputri, Novita W.; Watt, Helen M. G. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Relationships between cultural factors (ethnicity and religiosity) and dimensions of students' attributions for their success and failure (locus of control, stability, personal control and external control), along with motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence…
Descriptors: Motivation, Attribution Theory, College Students, Ethnicity
Young, Allison J.; Urdan, Timothy C. – 1993
A primary objective of this study was to examine the relations among students' perceptions of the classroom goal orientation as ability-focused goals and their own goals, as well as the relationships between these two components and other motivational factors such as subject-specific self-efficacy and task value. An additional purpose was to…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Students, Goal Orientation