TY - JOUR
T1 - Motivational and disciplinary differences in academic risk taking in higher education
AU - Abercrombie, Sara
AU - Bang, Hyeyoung
AU - Vaughan, Ashley
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Academic risk taking is a strategy where students engage in more difficult, challenging work in order to reap greater personal or community benefits, despite uncertainty, such as potential failure. A sample (N = 355) of college students from a Midwest university were measured on three dimensions of academic risk-taking as well as two motivational constructs, achievement goal orientation, and need for cognition using a hierarchical regression analysis. Students from different college majors were compared on risk-taking, and the relationships between achievement goal orientations, need for cognition, and risk-taking dimensions were tested. Results indicate achievement goal orientations and need for cognition strongly predict academic risk taking, and there are small but significant differences by major on some risk-taking dimensions. Implications include the need to foster academic risk-taking in different disciplines in higher education.
AB - Academic risk taking is a strategy where students engage in more difficult, challenging work in order to reap greater personal or community benefits, despite uncertainty, such as potential failure. A sample (N = 355) of college students from a Midwest university were measured on three dimensions of academic risk-taking as well as two motivational constructs, achievement goal orientation, and need for cognition using a hierarchical regression analysis. Students from different college majors were compared on risk-taking, and the relationships between achievement goal orientations, need for cognition, and risk-taking dimensions were tested. Results indicate achievement goal orientations and need for cognition strongly predict academic risk taking, and there are small but significant differences by major on some risk-taking dimensions. Implications include the need to foster academic risk-taking in different disciplines in higher education.
KW - Academic risk taking
KW - achievement goal orientation
KW - higher education
KW - need for cognition
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U2 - 10.1080/01443410.2022.2076810
DO - 10.1080/01443410.2022.2076810
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130888978
JO - Educational Psychology
JF - Educational Psychology
SN - 0144-3410
ER -