This study examined the mediating role of need-related experiences in the relation between need supportive and need thwarting parenting, positive and negative affect and grades among 304 high school students (M age = 14.91; SD age = 0.91; 53% female) from a Peruvian private school. Grounded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and considering latest empirical findings, a dual pathway, involving a bright and dark path, was hypothesized with need satisfaction and frustration mediating the relation from, respectively, need supportive parenting to positive affect and grades and from need thwarting parenting to negative affect. Using structural equation modeling we found evidence for the proposed mediation model, with the exception that academic achievement was predicted directly by parental need support. The present results highlight the importance of fostering students’ psychologica...

Esta investigación psicométrica tuvo como objetivo adaptar y validar dos cuestionarios: Autorregulación del Aprendizaje y Clima de Aprendizaje. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 369 estudiantes universitarios de una universidad privada de Lima con una edad promedio de 19.30 años (DE = 2.49). En ambos casos, se analizó la validez de constructo a través de análisis factoriales exploratorios con extracción de componentes principales, análisis factoriales confirmatorios y mediante la validez convergente y divergente de ambos cuestionarios. La validez de contenido se investigó a través del criterio de jueces expertos, mientras que la validez predictiva se llevó a cabo a través de correlaciones y regresiones entre las variables estudiadas (clima y regulación del aprendizaje) y el rendimiento académico de los alumnos. La confiabilidad se verificó a través del método de consisten...

We used an achievement goal framework to study the role of motivation in the academic context of a Peruvian sample of 8 th to 10 th grade high school students (N = 1505). The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to examine the relationship between students' achievement goals, their use of learning strategies and their academic achievement. Multiple Hierarchical Regressions Analyses identified, as predicted, positive effects of mastery goals, including more use of learning strategies and higher academic achievement, and negative effects of performance avoidance goals, including lower academic achievement. Mixed results were found for pursuing performance approach goals, which predicted a greater use of learning strategies, but were unrelated to academic achievement. The present findings support the external validity of achievement goal theory in a sample of students from a culture th...

Esta investigación psicométrica tuvo como objetivo adaptar y validar dos cuestionarios: Autorregulación del Aprendizaje y Clima de Aprendizaje. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 369 estudiantes universitarios de una universidad privada de Lima con una edad promedio de 19.30 años (DE = 2.49). En ambos casos, se analizó la validez de constructo a través de análisis factoriales exploratorios con extracción de componentes principales, análisis factoriales confirmatorios y mediante la validez convergente y divergente de ambos cuestionarios. La validez de contenido se investigó a través del criterio de jueces expertos, mientras que la validez predictiva se llevó a cabo a través de correlaciones y regresiones entre las variables estudiadas (clima y regulación del aprendizaje) y el rendimiento académico de los alumnos. La confiabilidad se verificó a través del método de consisten...

To investigate the role of student motivation in the educational context, the Goal Orientation Theory was employed in a sample of 1.505 secondary students in Lima. In the present investigation three types of goals were studied: learning oriented, performance approach and performance avoidance oriented. The empirical evidence is drawn basically from studies with samples of North American middleclass students. Therefore, our objective was to find if this evidence was also valid for a sample of Peruvian students examining the relation among students’ goal orientation, learning strategies and academic performance.

The present research uses self-determination theory to examine whether autonomous and controlled regulation of performance-approach (PAp) goals would differentially predict educational outcomes and add to the variance explained by the goal strength. Two cross-sectional studies among 10th to 12th grade students supported this hypothesis but showed that when regulations of PAp goals were entered into the same regression equation with the PAp goal strength, the PAp goal strength no longer predicted outcomes. Study 2 examined perfectionism in relation to PAp goals and types of regulation, thereby showing that whereas adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism were both positively related to PAp goals, adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism were associated with autonomous and controlled regulations, respectively. Finally, path modeling indicated that autonomous and controlled regulations of PAp g...