Task Enjoyment: A Mediator Between Achievement Motives and Performance

摘要: Task enjoyment is an important component in social cognitive theories of achievement motivation and intrinsic motivation. Combining these with the classic achievement-motivation theory we predicted that task its facilitating behavioral manifestations are associated approach-oriented motive only when individuals anticipate forthcoming competence feedback. In present study regarded as a mediator between performance. First, two-way ANOVA design was adopted. Success-motivated performed better reaction than failure-motivated individuals, they reported more during This relationship not dependent on whether information had been announced or not. Second, path analyses showed expected performance mediated by enjoyment. mediation observed under condition These results were discussed considering current It shown findings enrich related nomological networks some ways.