Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Pages: 269-279

Journal: Learning and Individual Differences: Journal of Psychology and Education

Volume number: 22

Issue number: 3

ISSN: 1041-6080

eISSN: 1873-3425

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2011.12.006

Publisher: Elsevier

Abstract: 
The self-regulation of motivation represents a key feature of self-regulated learning. Recent studies have documented that students use a variety of strategies to sustain their learning motivation and that most of these strategies have positive effects. However, less is known about how students integrate the various motivational strategies into an individual motivational regulation profile and which kind of profiles are most adaptive with respect to enhanced effort and persistence. To shed more light on this issue, we examined the motivational regulation profiles within two samples of German high-school and college students. In Study 1 (N = 231 11th and 12th grade students), latent profile analysis revealed five subgroups of students holding different motivational regulation profiles. In Study 2 (N = 600 college students), the five class solution was replicated with slight changes in the nature of the profiles. In both studies, profiles with a higher overall level of motivational strategy use were associated with a higher level of effort and achievement. Regarding differences in profile shape, results indicated that profiles emphasizing mastery and/or performance-approach self-talk were most adaptive. Implications of the findings for future research on motivational regulation are discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Harvard Citation style: Schwinger, M., Steinmayr, R. and Spinath, B. (2012) Not all roads lead to Rome - Comparing different types of motivational regulation profiles, Learning and Individual Differences: Journal of Psychology and Education, 22(3), pp. 269-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2011.12.006

APA Citation style: Schwinger, M., Steinmayr, R., & Spinath, B. (2012). Not all roads lead to Rome - Comparing different types of motivational regulation profiles. Learning and Individual Differences: Journal of Psychology and Education. 22(3), 269-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2011.12.006