Academic and social achievement goals and early adolescents' adjustment: A latent class approach

Middle school students pursue both academic and social goals. How to coordinate those strivings has important implications for students' academic and social adjustment at school. Confirmatory factor latent class analysis including both academic and social goals was conducted on the data from 440 middle school students. Analyses identified 3 latent classes based on academic goal orientation, and 2 social goal classes, resulting in a total of 6 (3...