Capacidad predictiva de las metas académicas sobre el rendimiento en diferentes áreas curriculares

  1. Valle Arias, Antonio 1
  2. Núñez Pérez, José Carlos 2
  3. González Cabanach, Ramón 1
  4. Rodríguez Martínez, Susana 1
  5. González-Pienda García, Julio Antonio 2
  6. Rosário, Pedro 3
  1. 1 Universidade da Coruña
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    Universidade da Coruña

    La Coruña, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01qckj285

  2. 2 Universidad de Oviedo
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    Universidad de Oviedo

    Oviedo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/006gksa02

  3. 3 Universidade do Minho
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    Universidade do Minho

    Braga, Portugal

    ROR https://ror.org/037wpkx04

Journal:
Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología

ISSN: 0120-0534

Year of publication: 2008

Volume: 40

Issue: 1

Pages: 111-122

Type: Article

More publications in: Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología

Abstract

This study intends to analyze the various academic goals and their predictive power of the academic achievement in five different school subjects of Spanish core curriculum. In order to assess this, the Questionnaire of Academic Goals has been applied to a large sample of adolescents attending the four grade level years of Spanish Secondary Education (12 to 16 years). Data suggest that achievement is, firstly, explained, positive and significantly, by students� wish of acquiring competence and control as well as of obtaining a good future job and, secondly, negatively, by reasons strongly related to the preservation of one�s self-esteem. Some implications of this data to learning are discussed.