Links Between School-Related Well-Being, Achievement Goals, and Academic Achievement

• In Event: International Perspectives of Achievement Goals

Abstract

21st century education includes teaching for students’ well-being which is considered a great resource for positive development. However, studies on the relationship between well-being and achievement are inconclusive, and evidence regarding associations between well-being and motives for achievement related behavior is scarce. The present study addresses these gaps by investigating relations between sub-facets of students’ school-related well-being, achievement goals and academic achievement. Achievement goals were assumed to mediate the relation between well-being and achievement. Self-reports were collected from 1484 Austrian secondary school students. Whereas the mediation assumption was rejected, several direct effects of the well-being components both on achievement goals and achievement were identified, thus expanding and refining the body of literature on student well-being, achievement goals and academic achievement.

Authors

• Julia Holzer, University of Vienna

• Sarah Bürger, University of Vienna

• Marko Lüftenegger, Universität Wien

• Christiane Spiel, University of Vienna

• Barbara Schober, University of Vienna