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Mouratidis, Athanasios; Lens, Willy; Sideridis, Georgios D. – Educational Psychology, 2010
In two cross-sectional studies, we investigated to what extent elementary (Study 1) and middle school (Study 2) students pursue similar, yet distinct, mastery-related and performance-related goals in physical education. We found that students were more likely to endorse outcome goals in conjunction with mastery-related goals and ability goals in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Achievement Need
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Sideridis, Georgios D. – Learning & Individual Differences, 2006
The objective of the present studies was to evaluate the self-regulatory properties of strong "oughts" as they relate to the academic achievement of elementary school students. Across three studies with typical elementary school students and students with learning problems, results indicated that strong oughts: (a) were associated with avoidance…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Learning Disabilities, Self Management, Student Motivation
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Sideridis, Georgios D.; Padeliadu, Susana – Remedial and Special Education, 2001
This study compared the motivational determinants of 258 low and high elementary grade readers in Greece within the framework of planned behavior theory. Low performing readers exhibited significantly lower perceptions of goal importance, intention to achieve, belief strength, outcome evaluation, and normative beliefs. The planned behavior model…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation
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Sideridis, Georgios D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2005
The purpose of the present study was to broaden planned behavior theory and examine its applicability to predict the academic achievement of students of low and high spelling ability. Two hundred fifty seven students, 54 low spellers and 203 high spellers from thirty elementary schools in northern Greece, participated in the study. Between groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Theories, Structural Equation Models, Spelling
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Sideridis, Georgios D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2005
Two studies evaluated the contribution of goal orientation--over and above the constructs of planned behavior theory--in explaining the relationship between attitudes, motivation, and academic achievement for students with and without learning disabilities. Results indicated that a performance-approach orientation exerted significant positive…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Disabilities, Behavior Theories, Goal Orientation
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Sideridis, Georgios D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
The objective of this investigation was to evaluate and expand the goal-orientation model of depression vulnerability proposed by B. M. Dykman (1998), which posits that a performance orientation creates a vulnerability to depression through repeated failure. This hypothesis was tested in 5 studies with students in Grades 5 and 6. A…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Grade 5, Structural Equation Models, Depression (Psychology)
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Sideridis, Georgios D. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2005
The purpose of the present study was to compare the everyday classroom practices of students with and without learning disabilities (LD) and attempt to predict those perceptions from classroom's motivational discourse and feelings of hopelessness. Two hundred thirty students with and without learning disabilities recorded their everyday classroom…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Student Behavior, Educational Experience, Student Motivation
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Sideridis, Georgios D. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2002
A study compared motivational determinants of 22 students at-risk for language difficulties (in reading and spelling) and students with high language skills. The at-risk students exhibited significantly lower perceptions of goal importance, intention to achieve, belief strength, outcome evaluation, and normative beliefs, and eventually scored…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation