The present study aimed at furthering the understanding of the potential effects of e-learner characteristics on e-learner satisfaction in an EFL context. Specifically, it examined the collective impact of computer anxiety, computer-mediated communication (CMC) apprehension, metacognitive self-regulation strategy use, mastery goal orientation, and performance goal orientation on EFL e-learner s...

The author has refined his lower blepharoplasty technique with the goal of eliminating scleral show and residual skin while maintaining normal eyelid posture. His technique involves fat removal and/or modification through a transconjunctival approach, aligning the lower eyelid globe and canthus with a stitch canthopexy, and measured excision of redundant skin with mastery of the “pinch” techniq...

The main goal of the rule space method is to classify examinees into the closest ideal attribute mastery patterns and to assigned appropriate attribute mastery probabilities to them based on their item response patterns. The quality of pattern classification and probability assignment depends on the validity of the proposed attributes and the Qmatrix. The rule-space method provides the quality ...

The present research examines the ambivalence of achievement goal promotion at university, and more specifically in the psychology curriculum. On the one hand, psychology teachers explicitly encourage mastery but not performance (neither approach nor avoidance) goals. On the other hand, the selection process encourages the endorsement of not only mastery but also performance-approach goals. In ...

BACKGROUND The term metacognition reflects a spectrum of psychological activities that allows people to form and integrate representations about their own mental states and those of others. The main goal of this study was to examine whether people with substance abuse disorders (SUDs), and treated in therapeutic community regime, displayed specific patterns of metacognitive deficits on Self-ref...

Using data from 1,184 women in the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, we estimated associations between education and Ryff's environmental mastery scale scores at age 52. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated two subscales, here termed mastery skills and mastery accomplishments. Low education was associated with higher mastery skills. This was partly explained by childhood socioeco...

Action-theoretical models and research provide a new framework for analyzing questions of human development across the life span (Brandtstädter, 1998). Action theories as introduced by psychologists of motivation, social psychologists, and personaliry psychologists (for summaries, see Gollwitzer & Bargh, 1996; Locke & Latham, 1990; Pervin, 1989) focus on how people's goals guide their actions. ...

This research comprised 3 studies (2 prospective and 1 short-term longitudinal) designed to investigate mastery, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals as predictors of achievement-relevant processes prior to the undergraduate examination experience. Results from across the 3 studies were supportive of the authors’ hypotheses and revealed a differential predictive pattern for eac...

This study examined relationships between the quality of cooperative learning (CL) and students' goal preferences and perceptions of contextual factors in the classroom. Subjects were 1,920 students in secondary vocational schools. The study focused on four different types of goals: social support, belongingness, mastery, and superiority goals. It was found that social support goals had the str...