Situating Expectancies and Subjective Task Values across Grade Levels, Domains, and Countries: A Network Approach

Autor/inn/en	Tang, Xin; Lee, Hye Rin; Wan, Sirui; Gaspard, Hanna; Salmela-Aro, Katariina
Titel	Situating Expectancies and Subjective Task Values across Grade Levels, Domains, and Countries: A Network Approach
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 8 (2022) 1, (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tang, Xin) ORCID (Lee, Hye Rin) ORCID (Gaspard, Hanna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Students; Middle School Students; Academic Achievement; Student Motivation; Expectation; Student Attitudes; Adolescents; Network Analysis; Foreign Countries; Finland; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Schulleistung; Schulische Motivation; Expectancy; Erwartung; Schülerverhalten; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Netzplantechnik; Ausland; Finnland; Deutschland
Abstract	In their recently renamed theory, situated expectancy-value theory (SEVT), Eccles and Wigfield (2020) emphasized the importance of situations in influencing individuals' motivational beliefs and academic choices. Adopting a novel approach--network analysis--this study aimed to examine how situations may impact the associations among expectancies, subjective task values, and achievement from a holistic perspective. In this study, situations were operationalized as grade levels (i.e., 6th-9th grade), subject domains (i.e., language arts and math), and countries (i.e., Finland and Germany). Adolescents from Finland (N = 4,062) and Germany (N = 449) were included in the study. Results showed that, overall, the networks are mostly subject bound, yearly varied, and country specific, supporting the situative nature of SEVT. We also found that expectancies were consistently the closest motivational beliefs to achievement, whereas utility values were the least close, implying that expectancies, not utility, might be the most desirable intervention targets for achievement improvement. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01