An evaluative message fosters mathematics performance in male students but decreases intrinsic motivation in female students
Abstract
This study contrasted the effects of two task messages, evaluative or non-evaluative, on mathematics performance, affect, and intrinsic task motivation. One hundred-twenty secondary-school students aged 17–21 years were delivered one of the two messages, or assigned to a control condition, before completing a mathematics task, measures of message appraisals (challenge and threat), affect (pleasantness, arousal, dominance), and a behavioural...
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Title
An evaluative message fosters mathematics performance in male students but decreases intrinsic motivation in female students
Published Date
Mar 4, 2020
Journal
Volume
40
Issue
8
Pages
941 - 960
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