🔍 This integrative approach reshapes how we should understand and foster motivation: no single support is enough. Instead, a holistic support is key to student growth.
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Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

📌 Interestingly, adaptive motivations share common roots, while less adaptive motivations (fixed mindsets, performance goal, fear of failure) each have unique, isolated patterns—a bit like how "all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

💡 Achievement motivation thrives in a community of support. Students are more likely to develop adaptive motivations when they experience positive, combined reinforcement from home, teacher, and peers. This effect is consistent across self-efficacy, learning goals, and task mastery.

This is an upper-level seminar class using intradisciplinary (integrating different psychology subdisciplines) and experiential approaches (e.g., community service learning). You can find the preprint & teaching resources here. osf.io/txd2r/