Study persistence and academic achievement as a function of the type of competing tendencies |
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| Authors: | Willy Lens Marlies Lacante Maarten Vansteenkiste Dora Herrera |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Munich, Leopoldstrasse 13, 80802 Munich, Germany |
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| Abstract: | In order to understand and predict students’ achievement and persistence at learning activities, many contemporary motivational
models consider how much students are motivated for their school work. However, students’ achievement and persistence might
not only be affected by their amount of study motivation, but also by the motivation to engage in competing alternative activities,
as suggested three decades ago by Atkinson and Birch in their “Dynamics of Action” (1970). Building on this line of theorizing,
the present contribution indicates that it is not only instructive to consider the level of students’ motivation for these
competing activities, but also the type of activities they engage in, that is leisure vs. working activities. Two studies
demonstrated that whereas time spent on working activities is inversely related to study motivation, attitude, persistence
and academic achievement, such relationships were not found for leisure time engagement. Spending some time on leisure time
activities does not interfere with optimal learning. |
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