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Direct linkDarnon, Celine; Dompnier, Benoit; Gillieron, Ophelie; Butera, Fabrizio – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Regner, Escribe, and Dupeyrat (2007) recently demonstrated that not only performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals (respectively, the desire to outperform others and not to be outperformed by others) but also mastery goals (the desire to acquire knowledge) were related to social comparison orientation (SCO, the tendency to search for…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedBerndt, Thomas J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
To examine the influence of friends on school achievement motivation, each of 118 eighth graders was paired with a close friend to discuss dilemmas concerning achievement motivation or an unrelated topic. Friends' decisions on motivational dilemmas were more similar after discussion than before. Discussions did not cause more extreme decisions.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
