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Motivation across a transition: Changes in achievement goal orientations and academic well-being from elementary to secondary school




AuthorsHeta Tuominen, Markku Niemivirta, Kirsti Lonka, Katariina Salmela-Aro

PublisherElsevier

Publication year2020

JournalLearning and Individual Differences

Article number101854

Volume79

Number of pages15

ISSN1041-6080

eISSN1873-3425

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101854

Web address https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101854

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/46141564


Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine i) the prevalence of achievement goal orientation profiles among Finnish sixth- and seventh-graders (N = 419), ii) the stability and change in these profiles across the transition from elementary to lower secondary school, and iii) the profile differences in academic achievement (grades) and academic well-being (school engagement and school burnout). Using latent profile analysis, four goal orientation profiles were extracted: indifferentsuccess-orientedmastery-oriented, and avoidance-oriented. Latent transition analysis confirmed that these profiles were stably identified over time. There was substantial stability in profiles: being assigned to the same group yielded the highest transition probabilities (0.63–0.75). Likely transitions were from success-oriented to indifferent and from indifferent to avoidance-oriented. Of those who transitioned, the majority moved from more to less favorable profiles. Students who stayed in the mastery-oriented group across the transition displayed the most adaptive pattern of motivation, academic achievement, and well-being.


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