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Sommet, Nicolas; Darnon, Céline; Butera, Fabrizio – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Despite the fact that most competence-relevant settings are "socially" relevant settings, the interpersonal effects of achievement goals have been understudied. This is all the more surprising in the case of performance goals, for which self-competence is assessed using an other-referenced standard. In the present research, performance…
Descriptors: Conflict, Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Objectives
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Gottfried, Adele Eskeles – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
Results of three studies are presented that demonstrate the significance of academic intrinsic motivation for children's education. As predicted, academic intrinsic motivation was found to be significantly and positively correlated with children's school achievement and perceptions of academic competency, and negatively correlated with academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance