Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5559/di.25.1.05
Parental Behavior and Adolescents' Achievement Emotions: The Role of Goal Orientations
Tihana Hrkač
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka
Rosanda Pahljina-Reinić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8699-7638
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka
Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of students'
achievement goal orientations on their achievement
emotions, as well as to examine the mediational role of
students' achievement goal orientations between perceived
parenting behavior and parent goals on these learning
outcomes. The self-report questionnaires were administered
in a sample of 208 high school students. Separate path
analyses examining the hypothesized role of students'
achievement goal orientations as mediators of the effects of
parenting behavior and parent goals on each outcome
variable were conducted. The results showed that students'
mastery goal orientation mediated the beneficial effects of
parental support and parent mastery goal on enjoyment and
boredom as activity emotions. Students' performance goal
orientation mediated the effects of psychological and
behavioral control on anxiety, as well as the effects of parent
performance goal on anxiety and pride as outcome
emotions. Finally, students' work avoidance goal
endorsement mediated the effects of psychological and
behavioral control on all the examined achievement
emotions except pride and proved to be a maladaptive
achievement goal orientation. These findings suggest that
there is a need for further research on the role of family
environment in adolescents' achievement goal adoption and
learning.
Keywords
parenting behavior; achievement goal orientations; achievement emotions; adolescents
Hrčak ID:
157960
URI
Publication date:
2.5.2016.
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