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Shin, Matt; Myers, Scott A.; Johnson, Zac D. – Communication Education, 2023
We integrated perspectives from achievement goal theory and expectancy-value theory to investigate how undergraduate students' (N = 475) achievement motivation might influence their instructional dissent. A latent profile analysis of students' achievement goals, performance self-efficacy, task value, and perceived cost revealed four distinct…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Dissent
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Goodboy, Alan K.; Myers, Scott A. – Communication Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate if college students' verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness traits promote their tendencies to engage in instructional dissent (i.e., expressive, rhetorical, vengeful). Participants were 172 undergraduate students who completed a self-report survey measuring these traits and their dissent practices…
Descriptors: Dissent, Interpersonal Communication, Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students