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Farm Owners' Reluctance to Embrace Family Succession and the Implications for Extension: The Case of Family Farms in New Zealand
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Nuthall, P. L.; Old, K. M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2017
Purpose: Despite the benefits of early planning for business succession, and plan implementation, many owners/managers fail to act expeditiously. Factors such as a reluctance to accept ageing, a concern over the risks involved and inappropriate objectives may be causative. This research moves towards explaining this reluctance and, consequently,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Farm Management, Planning
Applying Social Cognitive Career Theory to Predict Interests and Choice Goals in Statistics among Spanish Psychology Students
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Blanco, Angeles – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2011
This study investigated the usefulness of social cognitive career theory--SCCT (Lent, Brown, and Hackett, 1994) in predicting interests and goals relating to statistics among psychology students. The participants were 1036 Spanish students who completed measurements of statistics-related mastery experiences, self-efficacy, outcome expectations,…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Student Interests, Objectives, Statistics
Personal Best Goals and Academic and Social Functioning: A Longitudinal Perspective
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Liem, Gregory Arief D.; Ginns, Paul; Martin, Andrew J.; Stone, Barbara; Herrett, Maree – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Personal best goals (PB goals) articulate a target performance standard that matches or exceeds one's previous best. This study examined the role of PB goals in academic and social functioning. Alongside academic and social outcome measures, PB goal items were administered to 249 high-school students at the beginning and end of their school year.…
Descriptors: Objectives, Goal Orientation, High School Students, Longitudinal Studies
On Motivated Role Selection: Gender Beliefs, Distant Goals, and Career Interest
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Evans, Clifford D.; Diekman, Amanda B. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2009
Despite widespread changes in occupational opportunities, men and women continue to show divergent preferences for careers. This research invoked a motivational framework to explain sex-differentiated career interest. From a role congruity perspective (Diekman & Eagly, 2008), the internalization of gender roles leads people to endorse…
Descriptors: Careers, Females, Structural Equation Models, Role Theory
Sport Ability Beliefs, 2 x 2 Achievement Goals, and Intrinsic Motivation: The Moderating Role of Perceived Competence in Sport and Exercise
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Wang, C. K. John; Liu, Woon Chia; Lochbaum, Marc R.; Stevenson, Sarah J. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2009
We examined whether perceived competence moderated the relationships between implicit theories, 2 x 2 achievement goals, and intrinsic motivation for sports and physical activity. We placed 309 university students into high and moderate perceived competence groups. When perceived competence was high, entity beliefs did not predict the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Physical Activities, Competence, Theories
Relations among Competence Beliefs, Utility Value, Achievement Goals, and Effort in Mathematics
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Chouinard, Roch; Karsenti, Thierry; Roy, Normand – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: Research has shown that motivation is a key factor in the learning process as well as in school achievement. In essence, a number of researchers have highlighted the close link between motivation and achievement-related behaviours such as effort. Aims: The present study aims to acquire more specific information concerning the relations…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Processes, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods
Across Academic Domains: Extensions of the Social-Cognitive Career Model
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Fouad, Nadya A.; Smith, Philip L.; Zao, Kathryn E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2002
In the present study, the authors investigated the academic subject matter domain specificity of the social-cognitive career choice model (R. W. Lent, S. D. Brown, & G. Hackett, 1994). The relationships between self-efficacy, goals, outcome expectations, and interests were examined across the subject areas of art, social science, math/science, and…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Self Efficacy, Social Sciences, Structural Equation Models