Examining the Psychological Well-Being of Thai College Students Through a Self-Presentational and Impression Management Lens

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Abstract

This study examined the direct and interaction effects of students’ learning and performance-avoidance goal orientations on their psychological wellbeing and a moderating role of student gender in these relationships. Using 564 student self-reports of freshman college students in a Thai university, we found students’ psychological wellbeing to be positively related to their learning goal orientation and negatively related to their performance-avoidance goal orientation. The negative relationship between student performance-avoidance goal orientation and psychological wellbeing was stronger for male than female students. Differences in student psychological wellbeing between male and female students became more pronounced with increases in learning goal orientation for students with lower levels of performance-avoidance goal orientation, but not for students with higher levels of performance-avoidance goal orientation.

Authors

• John Joseph Sosik, The Pennsylvania State University - Great Valley

• Ravinder Koul, The Pennsylvania State University

• Jae Uk Chun, Korea University