Trait Goal Orientation, Self-Regulation, and Performance: A Meta-Analysis
verifiedrich profile · Journal of Business and Psychology · 2010
Cellar, Douglas F.; Stuhlmacher, Alice F.; Young, Samuel K.; Fisher, David M.; Adair, Christopher K.; Haynes, Sarah; Twichell, Emily; Arnold, Kathleen A.; Royer, Kendra; Denning, Bethany Lynn; Riester, Devon
What this article reports
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goal orientation → self efficacy
goal orientation → overall job performance
goal orientation → task performance
Models this article informs
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goal orientation predicts overall job performance
goal orientation predicts self efficacy
goal orientation predicts task performance
learning orientation predicts task performance
What the literature says about it
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supports “This was consistent with the study by Cellar et al. (2011) who found that mastery-approach goal orientation was associated with better task performance in various domains (academic, training and work).”
supports “This was consistent with the study by Cellar et al. (2011) who found that mastery-approach goal orientation was associated with better task performance in various domains (academic, training and work).”
supports “…has been found educationally adaptive, as they are connected with positive outcomes (e.g. persistence, Sideridis and Kaplan 2011; selfregulation, Cellar et al. 2011), whereas the opposite is true of both work-avoidance and performance-avoidance orientations, which have been found to be…”
supports “…has been found educationally adaptive, as they are connected with positive outcomes (e.g. persistence, Sideridis and Kaplan 2011; selfregulation, Cellar et al. 2011), whereas the opposite is true of both work-avoidance and performance-avoidance orientations, which have been found to be…”
supports “The distinction between approach and avoidance within the performance goal orientation clarified these findings, namely, that the performance avoidance goal orientation was negatively related to learning outcomes, whereas the performance approach goal orientation was positively related to learning outcomes (Cellar et al., 2011; Chen, 2015; Diseth, 2011; Elliot & Church, 1997; Elliot & McGregor, 2001; Huang, 2012).”
supports “This was consistent with the study by Cellar et al. (2011) who found that mastery-approach goal orientation was associated with better task performance in various domains (academic, training and work).”
supports “The distinction between approach and avoidance within the performance goal orientation clarified these findings, namely, that the performance avoidance goal orientation was negatively related to learning outcomes, whereas the performance approach goal orientation was positively related to learning outcomes (Cellar et al., 2011; Chen, 2015; Diseth, 2011; Elliot & Church, 1997; Elliot & McGregor, 2001; Huang, 2012).”
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