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Mouratidis, A.; Michou, A.; Aelterman, N.; Haerens, L.; Vansteenkiste, M. – Educational Psychology, 2018
In this prospective study, we recruited a sample of Belgian adolescents (N = 886) to investigate to what extent perceived teachers' motivating style relates to quality of motivation in the beginning of the school year and, in turn, changes in study effort and procrastination by the end of the school year. After controlling for initial levels of…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Time Management, Adolescents, Student Motivation
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Spada, Marcantonio M.; Moneta, Giovanni B. – Educational Psychology, 2014
The objective of this study was to verify the structure of a model of how surface approach to studying is influenced by the trait variables of motivation and metacognition and the state variables of avoidance coping and evaluation anxiety. We extended the model to include: (1) the investigation of the relative contribution of the five…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Study Habits, Predictor Variables, Test Anxiety
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Klassen, Robert M.; Kuzucu, Elcin – Educational Psychology, 2009
This article presents a study of academic procrastination and associated motivation variables in 508 adolescents from a general secondary school in central Turkey. Girls reported higher levels of self-efficacy for self-regulation and predicted higher Turkish grades than boys, but there was no difference in levels of procrastination. Academic…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Adolescents, Foreign Countries