Browsing by Author "Lo, Meng-Ting"

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Groups holding multiple achievement goals in the math classroom: Profile stability and cognitive and affective outcomes
(2017-07-01)
Lo, Meng-Ting
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Chen, Ssu-Kuang
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Lin, Sunny S. J.
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教育研究所
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Institute of Education
By using the 2 x 2 achievement goal framework, this study assessed the math achievement goal profiles of 488 Taiwanese students from Grades 7 to 8. In the first year, three math achievement goal profiles were identified using latent profile analysis: maladaptive, indifferent, and success-oriented. A slightly different profile, avoidant-but-adapting, was found in the second year in addition to the indifferent and success-oriented profiles. Success oriented students showed the most adaptive pattern of motivation, with high approach orientations, while maladaptive students demonstrated less-adaptive learning characteristics, with high avoidance orientations. Avoidant-but-adapting students exhibited high scores for avoidance and mastery-approach orientations. The goal profiles were investigated with respect to stability and change over one year transition. Our study reflects mastery-avoidance goal's unique contribution to the classification of students and its' influences on educational and psychological outcomes and provides insights into the 2 x 2 model of achievement goal orientations.
Impulsivity as a precedent factor for problematic Internet use: How can we be sure?
(2017-10-01)
Chen, Ssu-Kuang
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Lo, Meng-Ting
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Lin, Sunny S. J.
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教育研究所
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Institute of Education
Previous research has suggested that problematic Internet use (PIU) is associated with impulse control disorder. Although researchers have suggested that impulsivity is a risk factor for PIU, the literature lacks longitudinal evidence on the relationship between impulsivity and PIU. We aimed to use a cross-lagged analytic framework to identify temporal order effects and hypothesised that impulsivity was the precedent factor for PIU. In a panel sample of college students (N = 367), trait impulsivity and PIU were measured in the spring of freshman year and in their junior year. The measures included a self-developed PIU Scale and the revised Impulsiveness Scale based on Barratt's concept. We found that "non-planning impulsivity" was not associated with PIU. The "motor impulsivity" subfactor was thus adopted in the cross-lagged model. The results suggest that motor impulsivity and PIU were stable across time. Motor impulsivity at Time 1 positively predicted PIU at Time 2, but PIU at Time 1 did not predict motor impulsivity at Time 2. A further investigation using gender as a moderator found a gender difference in the temporal relationship. Because motor impulsivity is a risk factor for PIU, potential prevention strategies based on this result are suggested.
Profile of achievement goals in mathematics: A two-year study with cognitive and affective outcomes
(2016-07-01)
Chen, Ssu-Kuang
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Lo, Meng-Ting
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Lin, Sunny S. J.
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教育研究所
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Institute of Education