caa a22 4500 477138675 CHVBK 20180405111726.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19971001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1024944429347 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1024944429347 Achievement Motivation Goals in Relation to Academic Performance in Traditional and Nontraditional College Students [Elektronische Daten] [Marion Eppler, Beverly Harju] This study extended Dweck's model of achievement motivation to the collegiate level, and it is the first to apply this model to nontraditional students. We examined the relationship between goal orientations and academic performance in 262 undergraduate students grouped by nontraditional vs. traditional status. Although both groups rated themselves higher on learning goals than on performance goals, non-traditional students endorsed learning goals even more strongly than their traditional peers. Goal orientations were a better predictor of academic success than student status. Consistent with Dweck's model, a learning goal orientation was positively related to successful academic performance for both groups. The relationship between performance goals and academic success was less straightforward, but students who rated both goal orientations as relatively weak had the lowest cumulative GPAs. Traditional and nontraditional students differed on variables that were inversely related to academic performance. Less successful traditional students endorsed irrational beliefs (a possible index of learned helplessness), while less successful nontraditional students worked more hours at a paid job. Human Sciences Press, Inc., 1997 Eppler Marion Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, 27858-4353, Greenville, NC aut Harju Beverly aut Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/5(1997-10-01), 557-573 0361-0365 38:5<557 1997 38 11162 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024944429347 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024944429347 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Eppler Marion Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, 27858-4353, Greenville, NC aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Harju Beverly aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Research in Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 38/5(1997-10-01), 557-573 0361-0365 38:5<557 1997 38 11162 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer