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When do performance-approach goals undermine achievement? An experimental test of the goal complex model

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Corwin Senko *
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Sarah Pallone
DOI:10.1016/j.cedpsych.2026.102468delete
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• Two experiments provide a rare causal test of achievement goal complexes' effects. • The studies feature challenge and threat appraisals as part of a process analysis. • Controlling performance goals aroused more threat and anxiety, and hurt achievement. • Autonomous performance goals were entirely benign.
Keywords:
performance-approach goals
achievement goal complexes
threat appraisals
challenge appraisals
autonomous goals

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Contemporary Educational Psychology cover
Contemporary Educational Psychology
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