On the social nature of competence evaluations: Do task-involved individuals compare themselves to others?

This thesis is focused on re-examining the link between mastery goals and social comparisons in accordance to the original achievement goals theory (Nichols, 1989). For the first time, a statistical model and manipulation procedures captured the specific effect of an achievement goal profile featuri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kamarova, Sviatlana
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1579