Perceived instrumentality enhances student motivation only for students with a positive attitude toward their personal future; for students with a negative future outlook, high utility has the opposite effect¶

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q2 i? Perceived instrumentality interacts with affective attitudes toward one's individual future: it enhances motivation only under a positive personal future attitude and reverses under a negative outlook. → Phalet 2004

Evidence¶

Phalet 2004¶

Phalet, K., Andriessen, I., & Lens, W. (2004). How Future Goals Enhance Motivation and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms. Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 16, No. 1. https://hdl.handle.net/1874/23520

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The review reports, citing Van Calster et al. (1991), a study of Grade 11 and 12 students in which high-instrumentality students were more motivated than low-instrumentality students, and an interaction effect with affective attitudes toward one's individual future was found. No effect size is printed.

"Perceived instrumentality does enhance student motivation but only for students with a positive attitude toward their personal future. For students with a negative outlook on their future, attaching high utility to school results had the opposite effect on their motivation to study."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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