Students in the self-first variety condition articulated higher utility value than students in the other-first variety condition, indicating quality of utility connections depends on assignment sequence rather than type¶
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q3 i? The self-first variety condition produced higher articulated utility value (M = 8.45, SD = 2.68) than the other-first condition (M = 7.60, SD = 2.72; β = 0.08, p = .012), while the two same-type conditions did not differ (p = .10). → Priniski 2019
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Priniski 2019¶
Priniski, S. J., Rosenzweig, E. Q., Canning, E. A., Hecht, C. A., Tibbetts, Y., Hyde, J. S., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2019). The Benefits of Combining Value for the Self and Others in Utility-Value Interventions. Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000343
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Exploratory content analysis of hand-coded articulated utility value (0–12 summed across assignments) in the RCT. The quoted comparison shows the sequence effect; the same-type conditions did not differ, p = .10.
"students in the self-first variety condition articulated higher levels of utility value (M = 8.45, SD = 2.68) than those in the other-first condition (M = 7.60, SD = 2.72), β = 0.08, p = .012"
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Related Claims¶
- Giving students a choice between self-focused and other-focused utility-value assignments produced higher course grades than fixing the assignment type — related
- Among students with low performance expectations, self-first variety (a self-focused essay followed by other-focused letters) produced higher grades than other-first variety — related
- UV writing assignments showed more personal focus, more social and cognitive process content, and higher articulated utility value than control summary assignments — related
- The overall intervention contrast comparing all UV conditions to control was not significant, and no individual UV condition significantly outperformed control in the dummy-coded model — related
- The UV manipulation check: UV assignments elicit higher-quality utility-value connections than control summaries, and quality rises with more UV essays — related
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Students in the self-first variety condition articulated higher utility value than students in the other-first variety condition, indicating quality of utility connections depends on assignment sequence rather than type |
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Students in the self-first variety condition articulated higher utility value than students in the other-first variety condition, indicating quality of utility connections depends on assignment sequence rather than type |
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