On the social nature of competence evaluations: Do task-involved individuals compare themselves to others?
Access Status
Open access
Authors
Kamarova, Sviatlana
Date
2016Supervisor
Prof. Nikos Chatzisarantis
Prof. Martin Hagger
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
Metadata
Show full item recordSchool
School of Psychology and Speech Pathology
Remarks
This thesis is unavailable until 06 10 2021
Collection
Abstract
This thesis is focused on re-examining the link between mastery goals and social comparisons in accordance to the original achievement goals theory (Nichols, 1989). For the first time, a statistical model and manipulation procedures captured the specific effect of an achievement goal profile featuring high mastery and low performance goal endorsements. It has been soundly demonstrated that students who adopt a ‘pure’ mastery approach goal profile disregard favourable comparisons, but remain sensitive to unfavourable ones.
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.
-
Smith, L.; Alles, C.; LeMay, K.; Reddel, H.; Saini, B.; Bosnic-Anticevich, S.; Emmerton, Lynne; Stewart, K.; Burton, D.; Krass, I.; Armour, C. (2013)Background: Goal setting was investigated as part of an implementation trial of an asthma management service (PAMS) conducted in 96 Australian community pharmacies. Patients and pharmacists identified asthma-related issues ...
-
Eden, C.; Ackermann, Fran (2013)Creating public value is problematic in a world of austerity. Joint private and public, and public-public, projects are now an established way of creating public value. Establishing joint goals within a context of different ...
-
Gary, M.; Yang, Miles; Yetton, P.; Sterman, J. (2017)Many academics, consultants, and managers advocate stretch goals to attain superior organizational performance. However, existing theory speculates that, although stretch goals may benefit some organizations, they are not ...