Validity and Reliability of Trichotomous Achievement Goal Scale |
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| Authors: | Gökçe Erturan ?lker Yunus Arslan G?yasettin Demirhan |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Sport Sciences and Technology , Pamukkale University , Denizli, Turkey agerturan@pau.edu.tr;3. School of Sport Sciences and Technology , Pamukkale University , Denizli, Turkey;4. School of Sport Sciences and Technology , Hacettepe University , Ankara, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | The Trichotomous Achievement Goal Scale was developed by Agbuga and Xiang (2008 Agbuga, B. and Xiang, P. 2008. Achievement goals and their relations to self-reported persistence/effort in secondary physical education: A trichotomous achievement goal framework. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 27: 179–191. Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) by including selected items from the scales of Duda and Nicholls (1992 Duda, J. L. and Nicholls, J. 1992. Dimensions of achievement motivation in schoolwork and sport. Journal of Educational Psychology, 84: 290–299. Crossref], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]), Elliot (1999 Elliot, A. J. 1999. Approach and avoidance motivation and achievement goals. Educational Psychologist, 34: 169–189. Taylor & Francis Online], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]), and Elliot and Church (1997 Elliot, A. J. and Church, M. A. 1997. A hierarchical model of approach and avoidance achievement motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72: 218–232. Crossref], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) and adapting them into Turkish. The scale consists of 18 items, and students rated each item on a 7-point Likert scale. To ascertain the validity and reliability of the Trichotomous Achievement Goal Scale, it was administered to 845 female and 861 male Turkish high school students attending three public schools in the 2008–2009 spring semester. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted, and Cronbach's alpha and Fornell and Larcker's (1981 Fornell, C. and Larcker, D. F. 1981. Evaluating structural equation models with unobservable variables and measurement error. Journal of Marketing Research, 18: 39–50. Crossref], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]) criteria were tested on the items that measured the students' achievements, screening for the three distinct types of achievement goals proposed by the trichotomous framework. Based on the results of the study, the 16-item Trichotomous Achievement Goal Scale can be claimed as a valid a reliable scale. |
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| Keywords: | motivation achievement goal theory Turkish high school students |
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