Goals: an approach to motivation and achievement.
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Summary
A framework in which goals are proposed to be central determinants of achievement patterns was tested, showing the way in which the performance goal-low perceived ability condition produced the same pattern of strategy deterioration, failure attribution, and negative affect found in naturally occurring learned helplessness.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1988-01-01
- Cited by
- 3,267
- References
- 30
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- https://openalex.org/W2012987867
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Keywords
Learned helplessness, Psychology, Attribution, Need for achievement, Social psychology
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