Relationship between Turkish students' achievement goals and motivational strategies in physical education

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between Turkish high school students' achievement goals and motivated strategies. 1065 high school students (219 boys and 234 girls) completed a self-report survey. Results revealed that self-regulation is related to cognitive strategy use, self-efficacy, intrinsic value and test anxiety. All three achievement goals are related to each other. Performance approach goal is positively related to test anxiety and performance avoidance achievement goal is negatively related to intrinsic value. As a result performance approach and avoidance goals have caused negative outputs in high school physical education setting. © JPES.