Motivational and Behavioral Impact of Possible Selves: When Specificity Matters
| Autor: | Sophie Brunot, Anne-Laure de Place |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de Psychologie : Cognition, Comportement, Communication (LP3C - EA1285), Université de Bretagne Sud (UBS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IBSHS), Université de Brest (UBO) |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Self-efficacy
Autobiographical memory Field (Bourdieu) [SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology 05 social sciences [SHS.PSY]Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Student engagement Psychology ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS 050105 experimental psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Imagination, Cognition and Personality Imagination, Cognition and Personality, SAGE Publications, 2019, pp.027623661986427. ⟨10.1177/0276236619864275⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1541-4477 0276-2366 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0276236619864275 |
| Popis: | Two experiments examined the effects of general and specific possible selves on undergraduates’ academic self-efficacy and engagement. Based on findings in the field of autobiographical memory, we assumed that an interaction pattern would appear between specificity and valence when imagining future self-relevant events. Indeed, visualizing a future general success or specific failure led to better performance on an attention task (Study 1) and higher academic motivation (Study 2) than imagining a future general failure or specific success. On a measure of self-efficacy, however, participants imagining a future general failure were the only ones reporting lower academic self-efficacy (Study 2), excluding the possibility that this variable could be sufficient to explain the effects of possible selves on academic engagement. These results support the assumption of a similar impact of autobiographical memories and possible selves on motivation and behavior and call for further research in this field. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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