Dietrich Julia, Lazarides Rebecca
Institute of Educational Science, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.
Department of Education, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jun 28;10:1472. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01472. eCollection 2019.
Rooted in Eccles and colleagues' expectancy-value theory, this study aimed to examine how expectancies and different facets of task value combine to diverse profiles of motivational beliefs, how such complex profiles develop across a school year, and how they relate to gender and career plans. Despite abundant research on the association between gender and motivational beliefs, there is a paucity of knowledge regarding the gendered development of student motivational belief profiles in specific domains. Using latent-transition analysis in a sample of = 751 ninth to tenth graders (55.9% girls), we investigated girls' and boys' development of motivational belief profiles (profile paths) in mathematics across a school year. We further analyzed the association between these profile paths and math-related career plans. The results revealed four motivational belief profiles: high motivation (intrinsic and attainment oriented), balanced above average motivation, average motivation (attainment and cost oriented), and low motivation (cost oriented). Girls were less likely than expected by chance to remain in the high motivation profile, while the opposite was true for boys. The math-relatedness of students' career plans was significantly higher in the "stable high motivation" profile path than in all other stable profile paths.
本研究基于埃克尔斯及其同事的期望 - 价值理论，旨在探讨期望与任务价值的不同方面如何结合形成多样化的动机信念概况，这些复杂的概况在一学年中如何发展，以及它们与性别和职业规划有何关联。尽管关于性别与动机信念之间的关联已有大量研究，但对于特定领域中学生动机信念概况的性别发展情况，我们所知甚少。我们在一个由751名九至十年级学生（女生占55.9%）组成的样本中，运用潜在转变分析方法，研究了一学年中男生和女生在数学领域动机信念概况（概况路径）的发展情况。我们还进一步分析了这些概况路径与数学相关职业规划之间的关联。结果揭示了四种动机信念概况：高动机（内在和成就导向）、高于平均水平的平衡动机、平均动机（成就和成本导向）以及低动机（成本导向）。女生留在高动机概况中的可能性低于随机预期水平，而男生则相反。在“稳定高动机”概况路径中，学生职业规划与数学的相关性显著高于所有其他稳定概况路径。
