Elementary School Students’ Motivational Profiles and Their Associations With Mindset, Engagement, and Academic Achievement

• In Event: Advances in Expectancy-Value-Cost Research

Abstract

Combining situated expectancy-value and achievement goals frameworks, we investigated the motivational profiles of 513 Chinese elementary school students. We also compared students’ profiles regarding academic functioning and personal characteristics. Latent profile analysis identified four distinct profiles: Adaptive, High cost-competitive, Less-motivated, and Maladaptive. Students in the four profiles also differed in their classroom engagement, disengagement, and academic achievement. Furthermore, these four profiles demonstrated meaningful associations with students’ characteristics, including gender and mindset beliefs. Findings of the present study highlighted the importance of taking into consideration of students’ expectancy, value, cost, and goal beliefs together in order to better capture their motivational profiles in the school setting.

Authors

• Xinyi Shi, McGill University

• Lingsong Wang, Shanghai Changning Institute of Education

• Jingbo Hu

• yihao jiang

• Yi Jiang, East China Normal University