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| Title |
Can achievement goal theory provide a useful motivational perspective for explaining psychosocial attributes of medical students?
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Education, January 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6920-12-4 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nir Madjar, Yaacov G Bachner, Talma Kushnir |
| Abstract |
Psychosocial competence and frustration tolerance are important characteristics of skilled medical professionals. In the present study we explored the usefulness of applying a comprehensive motivational theory (Goal orientations), for this purpose. According to goal orientation theory, learning motivation is defined as the general goals students pursue during learning (either mastery goals - gaining new knowledge; or performance goals - gaining a positive evaluation of competence or avoiding negative evaluation). Perceived psychosocial abilities are a desirable outcome, and low frustration tolerance (LFT), is a negative feature of student behavior. The hypothesis was that the mastery goal would be positively associated with psychosocial abilities while performance goals would be positively associated with LFT. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 95 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Thailand | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 13% |
| Researcher | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 21 | 22% |
| Unknown | 19 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 32 | 34% |
| Psychology | 16 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 11% |
| Sports and Recreations | 5 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Unknown | 22 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 June 2012.
All research outputs
#14,723,994
of 22,661,413 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#2,137
of 3,291 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#157,986
of 243,452 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#8
of 10 outputs
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