کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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352635 | 618606 | 2014 | 14 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Interest predicts self-regulation above and beyond self-efficacy and grade goals.
• Interest directly predicts self-regulation but not grade goals or achievement.
• Self-regulation fully mediates the relationship of interest to achievement.
• Grade goals fully mediate the relationship of self-efficacy to self-regulation.
• However, goals partially mediate the relationship of self-efficacy to achievement.
We examined whether individual interest, as an affective motivational variable, could predict academic self-regulation and achievement, above and beyond what academic self-efficacy predicted. We tested the relationships between academic self-efficacy, individual interest, grade goals, self-regulation, and achievement of Korean middle school students (N = 500) in four different subject areas. Consistent with previous findings, self-efficacy predicted achievement both directly and indirectly via grade goals. Self-efficacy also predicted self-regulation, but only when grade goals mediated the relationship. Supporting our hypothesis, individual interest functioned as a correlated yet independent and direct predictor of self-regulation. It also predicted achievement, but only when self-regulation mediated the relationship. We thus suggest that academic self-regulation could be encouraged through the promotion of two distinct motivational sources, academic self-efficacy and individual interest. We further suggest that the pathways linking individual interest to academic self-regulation and achievement may differ from those linking academic self-efficacy to the same variables.
Journal: Contemporary Educational Psychology - Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2014, Pages 86–99