Adolescents’ autonomous functioning and implicit theories of ability as predictors of their school achievement and week-to-week study regulation and well-being

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dc.citation.epage66en_US
dc.citation.spage56en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber48en_US
dc.contributor.authorMouratidis, A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorMichou, A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorVassiou, A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-12T11:13:12Z
dc.date.available2018-04-12T11:13:12Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.departmentGraduate School of Educationen_US
dc.description.abstractResearch on students’ motivation has mainly focused on interpersonal differences rather than on the ongoing, intrapersonal dynamics that forge students’ everyday life. In this five-month longitudinal (diary) study, we recruited a sample of 179 high school students from Greece (35.8% males; Mage = 16.27; SD = 1.02) to investigate through multilevel analyses the ongoing dynamics of students’ motivation. We did so by examining the relation between autonomous functioning and aspects of study regulation (namely, study efforts and procrastination) and well-being (namely, subjective vitality and depressive feelings). After controlling for perceived competence, we found week-to-week autonomous functioning to relate positively to study efforts and subjective vitality and negatively to procrastination and depressive feelings. Interestingly, implicit theories of ability - the degree to which one believes that ability is fixed or amenable - were found to moderate the week-to-week relations of autonomous functioning to study efforts and homework procrastination. In particular, autonomous functioning co-varied positively to study efforts and negatively to homework procrastination only among students who believed that ability is malleable. Also, beliefs that ability is fixed predicted poorer grades, lower mean levels of study efforts, and higher homework procrastination. The results underscore the necessity of taking a more dynamic view when studying motivational phenomena and the importance of jointly considering the implicit theory framework and self-determination theory.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.09.001en_US
dc.identifier.issn0361-476X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/37428
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.09.001en_US
dc.source.titleContemporary Educational Psychologyen_US
dc.subjectAcademic achievementen_US
dc.subjectDiary studyen_US
dc.subjectImplicit theoriesen_US
dc.subjectMotivationen_US
dc.subjectSelf-determinationen_US
dc.subjectStudentsen_US
dc.titleAdolescents’ autonomous functioning and implicit theories of ability as predictors of their school achievement and week-to-week study regulation and well-beingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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