Self-Efficacy for Motivational Regulation, Motivational Regulation Strategies, and Academic Satisfaction: Exploring Between-Person and Within-Person Associations

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Investigations Into Self-Regulation of Learning and Related Constructs (San Diego)

Abstract

This four-wave panel study explores the longitudinal associations between self-efficacy for motivational regulation, use of motivational regulation strategies, and academic satisfaction in university students (N=574), considering stable interindividual differences (i.e., between-person associations) and intraindividual processes over time (i.e., within-person associations). At the between-person level, the two motivational regulation constructs were positively associated with each other as well as with satisfaction with study content and satisfaction with coping with study-related stress, respectively. At the within-person level, changes in self-efficacy beliefs negatively predicted subsequent changes in strategy use and positively predicted subsequent changes in both satisfaction dimensions, while other cross-lagged effects were not statistically significant. These findings accentuate the importance of disentangling between-person from within-person associations in longitudinal research on self-regulated learning.

Authors

• Olena Kryshko, University Duisburg - Essen

• Jens Fleischer, Ruhr-University Bochum

• Carola Grunschel, University of Münster

• Detlev Leutner, University of Duisburg-Essen