Associations between adolescent students' multiple domain task value-cost profiles and STEM aspirations.

ABSTRACT: According to the modern expectancy-value theory, students' task values may differ across domains, manifesting as varying motivational patterns. In middle school, students' motivation becomes increasingly apparent and may direct their future occupational aspirations. Using a person-oriented approach, this study examines students' self-concept, and positive and negative task values (i.e., utility value, intrinsic value, and emotional cost) across Finnish language, math, biology, and physics, and the stability of the identified profiles. Further, the associations of the profiles with students' subsequent academic achievement and math and natural science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)/health science STEM aspirations, and gendered effects were examined. Longitudinal data was c

SUBMITTER: Vinni-Laakso J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9815538 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature