Predicting Adolescents’ Math-Related Occupational Aspirations From Math Intrinsic Value, Math Ability Self-Concept, and Their Interaction (Poster 8)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 3:05 pm
  In Poster Session: Explorations in Student Motivation, Self-Efficacy, and Educational Outcomes

Abstract

We utilized a large longitudinal dataset to test an important prediction of expectancy-value models: that task values and success expectancies interact to predict outcomes. This implies – important for both theory and practice – that a high self-concept cannot compensate for a low task value and vice versa. This prediction remains understudied because interaction effects are more susceptible to low reliability. We used a latent interaction approach, which circumvents this issue, to test whether math intrinsic value and ability self-concept mutually enhanced one another’s effect on the math-relatedness of adolescents’ occupational aspirations. Our results supported this prediction, which points to the importance of continuing to investigate not only main effects but also interaction effects within the framework of the Situated Expectancy-Value Model.

Authors

• Anna Kristina Nishen, Technische Universität Dortmund

• Hannah Streck, Freie Universität Berlin

• Ursula Kessels, Freie Universität Berlin

• Ricarda Steinmayr, Technische Universität Dortmund