Family Orientation and Achievement Goal Orientations Among the Children of Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Families

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  In Poster Session: Social and Cultural Processes in Motivation Research

Abstract

The current study examined the predictors of achievement motivations among the children of immigrant and nonimmigrant families using the achievement goal orientation theory framework. This study particularly examined the mediating role of high-school students’ family orientations in the relationships between the students’ perceptions of their parental goals, and their achievement motivations (achievement goal orientations, intrinsic motivations), when their perceptions of classroom goal structures were included. We found that students’ family orientations predict their desire to win over their peers with certain levels of internal pressure in order to meet their parents’ expectations, aligned with previous literature. Our study results also indicated more complex family roles (e.g., parent mastery goals) and family orientations on mastery goals among children from immigrant families.

Authors

• Jung-In Kim, University of Colorado - Denver

• Wendi Gorelik, Community College of Denver

• Shauna P de Long, University of Colorado Denver

• Larissa A Kelly, University of Colorado Denver

• Kristen Penwell, University of Colorado - Denver

• Courtney M Donovan, University of Colorado - Denver