General achievement goals orientation scale: factorial analysis in high school students

• Author(s): Gomes, Andreia ; Azevedo, Ângela Sá ; Dias, Paulo César ; Guimarães, Teresa ; Lima, Isabel ; Salgado, Ana ; Salgado, Ana Isabel
• Date: 2018
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/29952
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Goals; Achievement; Motivation; High school
• Document Type: Research article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): REPOSITÓRIO P.PORTO

Description

This paper aims to present the results of the Portuguese adaptation of General Achievement Goal Orientation Scale (GAGOS; McInerney & Yeung, 2000). This instrument has five different motivation scales: Motivation Value, Global Motivation, General Mastery, General Performance and General Social. The work of adaptation consisted in a exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis and internal consistency analysis from the data of two samples of 617 and 418 High School students. The results suggest a solution with good psychometric properties, in terms of validity as acceptable fidelity, with differences per gender and relationship with age and education level. The results discussed and suggestions presented.