Adaptability, Personal Best Goals, and Student Outcomes: Longitudinal Analysis From a Social Cognitive Perspective

• In Event: 29.026 - Advances in Achievement Goal Research

Abstract

Adaptability and personal best (PB) goals represent recent developments in self-regulation and goal-setting conceptualizing, respectively. Social cognitive theory (SCT) examines the factors that influence human functioning and motivation. As self-regulation and goal-setting are traditional factors examined by SCT as influencing human motivation, this investigation seeks to understand the role of adaptability and PB goals in student functioning from a social cognitive perspective. The present investigation longitudinally examined N=1,481 students across two consecutive academic years. Structural equation modeling was used to examine the hypothesized longitudinal relationships. Adaptability was found to predict PB goals, and PB goals were found to predict engagement and achievement, together indicating their positive impact on student outcomes.

Authors

• Emma Conor Burns, University of New South Wales

• Andrew J. Martin, The University of New South Wales

• Rebecca J. Collie, University of New South Wales