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Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
Volume 44, 2024 - Issue 3
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Distinct roles of autonomy satisfaction and frustration in predicting adolescent students’ academic motivation and achievement

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Pages 377-394 | Received 28 Apr 2022, Accepted 09 May 2024, Published online: 21 May 2024
 

Abstract

We examined whether autonomy satisfaction and frustration could be empirically distinguished and had different predictive relationships with students’ academic motivation and achievement in maths and English. Results based on a group of 3142 Chinese adolescent students revealed that autonomy satisfaction and frustration were two distinguishable constructs and demonstrated distinct predictive utility. Specifically, satisfaction of autonomy was positively associated with self-efficacy, which in turn, led to higher achievement. Furthermore, autonomy satisfaction was positively linked to interest value. In contrast, frustration of autonomy was positively associated with effort cost, which subsequently undermined achievement. Furthermore, these patterns were highly consistent across two subject domains. Findings of the present study highlight the importance of differentiating between autonomy satisfaction and frustration when predicting students’ academic outcomes.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This research was supported by the National Social Science Foundation for Education of China [BIA220069].

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