Autonomous reasons are more prominent than controlled reasons for goal striving regardless of aim type¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Across goal-complex studies, mean levels of autonomous reasons exceed those of controlled reasons for both mastery and performance aims. → Janke 2024

Evidence¶

Janke 2024¶

Janke, S. (2024). Dynamic or Static Goal Regulation: Implications of Weak and Strong Bonds Between Autonomous/Controlled Reasons and Aims for Achievement Goal Striving. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09968-w

q2 · i? · review · r2

The author's first central observation from inspecting observed associations and reason mean values in Tables 1 and 2 of the scoping review. No effect size is printed for this mean-level contrast; supporting means appear in the tables per study.

"First, autonomous reasons emerge as more prominent than controlled reasons for goal striving regardless of whether the authors investigated mastery (approach) or performance (approach) aims."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Achievement Goal Orientation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Performance aims are ambiguously aligned, tied nearly equally to autonomous and controlled reasons — reports the opposite
• In studies investigating mastery and performance aims simultaneously, mastery aims show tighter bonds with autonomous than controlled reasons, while performance aims are more equidistant — reports the opposite
• Across goal-complex studies, autonomous reasons are strongly associated with achievement goal aims (pooled r = 0.54) — related
• Mastery aims are strongly bound to autonomous reasons and only weakly to controlled reasons — related