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Duchesne, Stéphane; Ratelle, Catherine F. – Educational Psychology, 2020
This 2-year prospective study aimed to examine the predictive role of students' achievement goals (mastery-approach and performance-avoidance) on socioemotional adjustment in high school by assessing the potential mediating contribution of academic motivations. A total of 407 high school students (46% boys) were surveyed each year in Secondary 2…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Emotional Adjustment, Social Adjustment
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Gaudreau, Patrick; Franche, Véronique; Gareau, Alexandre – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
The 2 × 2 model of perfectionism conceptualizes perfectionism as the within-person combinations of self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism to define four subtypes of perfectionism. This model posits that each subtype is distinctively associated with self-determined motivation and psychological adjustment. Results of latent moderated…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Structural Equation Models, Emotional Adjustment, Self Determination
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Uqdah, Aesha L.; Tyler, Kenneth M.; DeLoach, Chante – Negro Educational Review, 2009
The goal of this study is to explore the relationships between academic self-concept, perception of competency in related domains, and academic motivation (intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation), and reported anxiety and depression among Black American psychology graduate students. The major research question asks whether there is a relationship…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Incentives, Emotional Adjustment, Psychology