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Understanding the Association between Future Time Perspective and Self-Regulated Learning through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory
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de Bilde, Jerissa; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Lens, Willy – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The present cross-sectional research examined a process underlying the positive association between holding an extended future time perspective (FTP) and learning outcomes through the lens of self-determination theory. High school students and university students (N = 275) participated in the study. It was found that students with an extended FTP…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Time Perspective, Anxiety, Metacognition
Time Perspective and Identity Formation: Short-Term Longitudinal Dynamics in College Students
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Luyckx, Koen; Lens, Willy; Smits, Ilse; Goossens, Luc – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Planning for the future and developing a personalized identity are conceived of as important developmental tasks that adolescents and emerging adults are confronted with on the pathway to adulthood. The present study set out to examine whether both tasks develop in tandem by using a short-term longitudinal dataset consisting of 371 college…
Descriptors: College Students, Structural Equation Models, Time Perspective, Cognitive Processes
The Role of Different Types of Instrumentality in Motivation, Study Strategies, and Performance: Know Why You Learn, So You'll know What You Learn!
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Simons, Joke; Dewitte, Siegfried; Lens, Willy – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Background: Two theories in the field of motivation and achievement, namely the future time perspective theory and goal theory, result in conflicting recommendations for enhancing students' motivation, because of their differential emphasis on the task at hand and on the future consequences of a task. Aims: We will present a framework consisting…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Rewards, Time Perspective, Study Habits
Future Goal Setting, Task Motivation and Learning of Minority and Non-Minority Students in Dutch Schools
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Andriessen, Iris; Phalet, Karen; Lens, Willy – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Cross-cultural research on minority school achievement yields mixed findings on the motivational impact of future goal setting for students from disadvantaged minority groups. Relevant and recent motivational research, integrating Future Time Perspective Theory with Self-Determination Theory, has not yet been validated among minority…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes, Time Perspective, Learning Strategies
Placing Motivation and Future Time Perspective Theory in a Temporal Perspective
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Simons, Joke; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Lens, Willy; Lacante, Marlies – Educational Psychology Review, 2004
An overview of the conceptual development of future time perspective theory [Nuttin, J. R. (1984). "Motivation, Planning and Action: A Relational Theory of Behavior," Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ; Nuttin, J., and Lens, W. (1985). "Future Time Perspective and Motivation: Theory and Research Method," Leuven University Press and Erlbaum, Leuven, Belgium…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Behavior Theories, Futures (of Society), Self Determination
From Duty to Desire: The Role of Students' Future Time Perspective and Instrumentality Perceptions for Study Motivation and Self-Regulation.
Lens, Willy; Simons, Joke; Dewitte, Siegfried – 2002
This chapter furthers the discussion of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation by contending that learning and studying are multidetermined and that intrinsic motivation is typically accompanied by extrinsic motivation. The chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of future time perspective as a cognitive-motivational personality…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Goal Orientation