Undergraduate Goal Orientations Across the Globe: Does the 3 X 2 Model Hold Up?
Maren Greve
,
Aaron S. Richmond
,
Tara L. R. Beziat
,
Otavaia N. Davis
,
Keegan L. Moore
,
Christopher A. Was
Recently, a large-scale study of college students’ motivation orientations when they transitioned to online learning because of the global COVID.
- Pub. date: July 15, 2024
- Online Pub. date: April 26, 2024
- Pages: 1365-1374
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Recently, a large-scale study of college students’ motivation orientations when they transitioned to online learning because of the global COVID-19 pandemic found that unlike prior studies, in the 3 x 2 goal orientation framework the standard for competence (self, other, task) was of greater importance than valence (approach, avoidant). Moreover, previous research found students’ different goal orientations related to how they responded to the shutdown academically from both volition and social perspectives. We investigated whether a three-factor model would replicate with unique undergraduate cross-cultural samples, and we wanted to examine how students with different goal orientations responded to the shutdown of their universities due to the pandemic. Students from a U.S. university and students from Oman completed a 44-item goal orientation survey, a demographic survey, and an 11-item survey to assess students’ experiences following the pandemic. Results indicate that students who set task-based goals were less likely to have negative experiences related to the social aspects of the pandemic and those students who had negative responses to the lack of social contact were also expected to have lower grades.
Keywords: COVID-19, goal orientations, motivation, undergraduates.
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