Foreshadowing Identities: The Relation between Achievement Goals and Educational Identity in a Sample of Romanian Emerging Adults

The manner in which young people set academic achievement goals, engage in academic tasks, and relate to success or failure has a decisive influence on how they shape their educational identity. What motivates adolescents and emerging adults to engage in learning commitments? How are their motivational orientations related to their null development? Kaplan and Flum (2010) argued that it is important to analyze null and achievement goal...