Abstract
The present research was designed to document the relationship between mastery and performance goals and attitudes toward helping others, and to test the mediating role of self-efficacy. Two experiments (Studies 1 and 2) showed that students with mastery goals hold stronger positive attitudes toward helping peers, relative to students with performance goals. Furthermore, a field study (Study 3) indicated that students’ mastery goals were positively related to holding positive
attitudes toward helping fellow students, whereas performance goals were not. Studies 2 and 3 indicated that this could be explained by the intra-individual process of academic self-efficacy.
Finally, it was shown that a negative relationship existed between performance goals and helping peers only for individuals with relatively weak mastery goals
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 345-363 |
Journal | Self and Identity |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- achievement goals
- performance goals
- organizational citizenship
- information exchange
- seeking behaviors
- early adolescents
- job-satisfaction
- motivation
- task
- orientation