Adolescent Motivational Self-Regulation Profiles: Implications for Motivational Beliefs, Achievement, and Engagement

• In Event: Poster Session 13
  In Poster Session: Motivation in Education SIG Poster Session 2

Abstract

This study uses an advanced latent profile mixture-model analysis to explore patterns of adolescents’ strategies to regulate their motivation, and the relations these patterns share with achievement motivational beliefs, academic achievement and other self-regulatory behaviors and practices that shape achievement. Among 273 students from a Midwestern urban non-metropolitan high-school, three distinct motivational self-regulation profiles were identified. One group reported high levels across motivational self-regulatory practices (28%), a second group reported low rates of motivational self-regulation (21%), and a third reported moderate levels (51%). All of the outcomes of interest were related to profile membership. Research, theoretical, and practical implications are discussed.

Author

• Shawn Andrew Lampkins-Uthando, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign