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  • Nuorten henkilökohtaisten tavoitteiden profiilit ja subjektiivinen hyvinvointi 
    Riuttala, Elina (2006)
    Personal goals offer an important aspect of personality and motivation. Personal goals are conscious and subjectively motivated objectives by which a person directs his or her life over time. Personal goals are related to adolescents' subjective well-being. The aim of the present research was to find out, what kinds of groups of adolescents can be formed by the content of personal goals and how these groups differ in goal appraisals, meaningful life events and subjective well-being. The second aim of the study was to detect gender differences and differences between vocational and high school students in goal appraisals, meaningful life events and subjective well-being. Adolescents in upper secondary education (N=1144) were grouped together by the content of their personal goals using a person oriented approach and a cluster analysis. Clusters found in the analysis were named by the centre goal as (1) a property group, (2) a vocation group, (3) a future education and personal relationships group and (4) a self-focused group. Adolescents in the property group put a little effort into their career goal, they were not exhausted in school work and their subjective well-being was average. Adolescents in the vocation group felt progress in their career goal and put effort into it. They had goals related to life-style. They did not feel exhausted and their subjective well-being was average. The future education and personal relationships group put effort into their career goal and considered progressing in it. Personal relationships were important in their lives. They were exhausted in their school work but they did not feel cynicism. Their own health was one of their goals and they felt satisfaction in their life. Adolescents in the self-focused group did not put effort into their career goal nor considered progressing in it. They were exhausted and especially cynical in their school work. They suffered from almost clinically significant depression. They had low life-satisfaction and low self-esteem. The following gender and educational differences were found. Compared with boys, girls felt their career goal was more important and stressful, and girls also put more effort into it. Girls were more exhausted, depressed and they had lower self-esteem than boys. High school students felt more stress with their career goal than vocational school students. High school students were more exhausted, but still they felt more satisfaction with their lives. In practice, to cover adolescents' personal goals is a possibility to find distressed individuals who might be in need for extra support.
  • Tavoiteorientaatioryhmät ja niiden yhteys koulutustavoitteisiin sekä koulumenestykseen kuudesluokkalaisilla oppilailla 
    Pyyhtiä, Anne (2015)
    The aim of the present study was to examine what kinds of achievement goal orientation profiles can be identified among sixth-graders and how students with different profiles differ with respect to their education-related personal goals and goal appraisals as well as their academic achievement. Usually researchers have adopted a variable-centred approach and investigated interactions between variables but this study adopted a person-centred approach, which enables the investigation of multiple goals simultaneously. The data used in this study were drawn from the Mind the Gap -research project (2013-2017), funded by the Academy of Finland. The participants were 761 sixth grade students from 32 schools. Utilizing K-means cluster analysis, groups of students with different motivational profiles were identified. The open-ended answers concerning students' education-related personal goals were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Group differences in goal appraisals and academic achievement were examined by means of analysis of variance (ANOVA). Four different achievement goal orientation profiles were found and they were labelled as: indifferent, mastery-oriented, success-oriented and avoidance-oriented. Indifferent students were aware of the importance of school but they were also characterized by avoidance tendencies. Mastery-oriented students predominantly emphasized learning and strove for self-improvement. Success-oriented students aimed for both relative (i.e., outperforming others) and absolute (i.e., getting good grades) success, but they also wanted to learn. Finally, avoidance-oriented students were the least motivated towards schoolwork. The mastery-oriented and success-oriented students had the highest academic achievement and they were most committed and used most time and effort to their educational goals. Indifferent and success-oriented students were more stressed about their educational goals than mastery-oriented students. These results support the idea that schools should recognize and pay attention to differently motivated students. For example, avoidance-oriented students need more aid and support in school engagement than others. Furthermore, success-oriented students need encouragement to study for themselves than others. Also, schools should be aware of that performance-oriented learning environment may increase the social comparison and competition behaviors which may impair motivation.

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