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ERIC Number: EJ1138527
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Mar
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
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The Social Utility of Performance-Approach Goals in a Selective Educational Environment
Jury, Mickaël; Darnon, Céline; Dompnier, Benoit; Butera, Fabrizio
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v20 n1 p215-235 Mar 2017
According to the recent research, the educational system fulfills both an educational function (i.e., teaching and training students) and a selection function (i.e., determining students' future position in the social hierarchy), particularly in higher education. It has been argued that in the university system the selection function provides a social utility value to performance-approach goals (i.e., the goal to demonstrate one's own competences relative to others), which in turn increases the extent to which students endorse these goals. Two experiments investigated the influence of the salience of the selection function on performance-approach goals' social value and endorsement. The results showed that the salience of the selection function increased both performance-approach goal endorsement (experiment 1 and 2) and performance-approach goals' social utility (experiment 2). These goals' social utility contributes to explaining the effect of the salience of the selection function on performance-approach goal endorsement. Limitations of the present experiments and practical implications are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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