Front Psychol. 2017 Mar 22;8:417. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00417. eCollection 2017.
Frontiers in psychology
Rebecca Lazarides, Diana Raufelder
PMID: 28382012 PMCID: PMC5361209 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00417
This two-wave longitudinal study examined how developmental changes in students' mastery goal orientation, academic effort, and intrinsic motivation were predicted by student-perceived support of motivational support (support for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) in secondary classrooms. The study extends previous knowledge that showed that support for motivational support in class is related to students' intrinsic motivation as it focused on the developmental changes of a set of different motivational variables and the relations of these changes to student-perceived motivational support in class. Thus, differential classroom effects on students' motivational development were investigated. A sample of 1088 German students was assessed in the beginning of the school year when students were in grade 8 (
Keywords: adolescence; autonomy; classroom characteristics; competence; latent change model; motivation; relatedness