Advising Models: Goal Achievement and Program Effectiveness

Achievement goal and discrete emotions in sport

Achievement goals and achievement emotions are elements developed during participation in sport activities. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between achievement goals and discrete emotions in sport and whether emotions vary with gender and type of sport. Males (n = 179), and females (n = 184) athletes were asked to participate in this study. Their age ranged from 18 to 23 ...

Running Head: Impact of Achievement Goal States The Impact of Achievement Goal States on Working Memory*

The present study examines the influence of achievement goal states on working memory under varying executive load. Seventy-six undergraduate students were randomly assigned to either a mastery-approach condition (goal was to develop selfreferential competence), a performance-approach condition (goal was to demonstrate normative competence) or a control condition (no goal assigned) prior to com...

aCtivity: Goal Profile analysis usinG niCholl’s aChieveMent Goal theory

[Predictors of goal achievement in an intervention program among Japanese-Brazilians].

The aim of this study was to identify baseline factors associated with achieving goals after a 12-month lifestyle intervention program in a Japanese-Brazilian population, using adjusted logistic regression models. In 2005, 321 participants were overweight. The odds [OR (IC95%)] of reaching the goals after 12 months of intervention were directly related to female gender [2.35 (1.34, 4.13)] and o...

A 3 2 Achievement Goal Model

In the present research, a 3 2 model of achievement goals is proposed and tested. The model is rooted in the definition and valence components of competence, and encompasses 6 goal constructs: taskapproach, task-avoidance, self-approach, self-avoidance, other-approach, and other-avoidance. The results from 2 studies provided strong support for the proposed model, most notably the need to separa...