Multiple‐goal pursuit and its relation to cognitive, self‐regulatory, and motivational strategies

Background. The topic of academic goals has provided very important information about students’ motivation. Traditional research has described several mutually exclusive goals that elicit different motivational patterns. Nevertheless, goal‐orientation research has reported the possibility that more than one goal may operate simultaneously. Aim. The purpose of this study was to characterise multiple‐goal groups of students, who use various types...