Agency and motivation in adulthood and old age

J Heckhausen, C Wrosch… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
This review addresses conceptual and empirical research about how individual agency and
motivation influences development during adulthood and old age. The major life-span …

The Relation between Motivation and Goal Attainment: A Correlational Meta‐Analysis

A Lee - Japanese Psychological Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This meta‐analysis investigated the strengths of the relationship between various types of
motivations and accompanying future outcomes that individuals intend to change, based …

Socio-emotional skills in education and beyond: recent evidence and future research avenues

CM Lechner, S Anger, B Rammstedt - Research handbook on the …, 2019 - elgaronline.com
Character strengths and virtues have always been a central point of reference for pedagogy
and the philosophy of education. What character strengths and virtues are essential for the …

Parenting and adolescents' academic achievement: The mediating role of goal engagement and disengagement

PS Yau, Y Cho, J Shane, J Kay… - Journal of Child and Family …, 2022 - Springer
Prior research has investigated parental behavior and students' motivation separately as
predictors of adolescents' academic achievement. The current study jointly examined the …

Preparing for uncertain careers: How youth deal with growing occupational uncertainties before the education-to-work transition

CM Lechner, MJ Tomasik, RK Silbereisen - Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent changes in labor market and working conditions have rendered youth's education-to-
work transitions and career prospects more uncertain. This study investigated how youth …

A motivation treatment to enhance goal engagement in online learning environments: Assisting failure-prone college students with low optimism.

JM Hamm, RP Perry, JG Chipperfield… - Motivation …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Motivation treatments to enhance goal engagement can improve academic outcomes for
college students with single academic risk factors (Hamm, Perry, Chipperfield, Heckhausen …

Parents still matter: Patterns of shared agency with parents predict college students' academic motivation and achievement.

K Kriegbaum, B Villarreal, VC Wu… - Motivation …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous research shows the substantial influence parents have on their children. Many
parents invest considerable effort in maintaining this influence during college. Shared …

With great control comes great responsibility: The relationship between perceived academic control, student responsibility, and self‐regulation

EJ Fishman - British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Students' perceived control over academic outcomes has been linked to their
use of self‐regulated strategies. However, students' sense of responsibility, or internal …

Attributional retraining: A motivation treatment with differential psychosocial and performance benefits for failure prone individuals in competitive achievement settings

JM Hamm, RP Perry, RA Clifton… - Basic and applied …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Our quasi-experimental, longitudinal treatment study examined whether Attributional
Retraining (AR) facilitated adjustment among young adults (n= 324) making the challenging …

College Students' motivational beliefs and use of goal-oriented control strategies: Integrating two theories of motivated behavior

L von Keyserlingk, C Rubach, HR Lee, JS Eccles… - Motivation and …, 2022 - Springer
In college, students often encounter situations in which they struggle to meet their academic
goals in difficult courses. We integrate the Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development …