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This important handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative review of achievement motivation and establishes the concept of competence as an organizing framework for the field. The editors synthesize diverse perspectives on why and how individuals are motivated in school, work, sports, and other settings. Written by leading investigators, chapters reexamine central constructs in achievement motivation; explore the impact of developmental, contextual, and sociocultural factors; and analyze the role of self-regulatory processes. Focusing on the ways in which achievement is motivated by the desire to experience competence and avoid experiencing incompetence, the volume integrates disparate theories and findings and sets forth a coherent agenda for future research.
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Handbook of Competence and Motivation This page intentionally left blank Handbook of Competence and Motivation Edited by Andrew J. Elliot Carol S. Dweck FOREWORD BY Martin V. Covington THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London © 2005 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Handbook of competence and motivation / edited by Andrew J. Elliot, Carol S. Dweck ; foreword by Martin V. Covington. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59385-123-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Achievement motivation. I. Elliot, Andrew J. II. Dweck, Carol S., 1946–. BF504.H36 2005 153.8—dc22 2004029882 About the Editors Andrew J. Elliot, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rochester, and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Personality. Dr. Elliot has written over 70 scholarly publicaions, has received research grants from public and private agencies, and has been awarded four different early- and mid-career awards for his research contributions. His research areas include achievement and affiliation motivation; approach–avoidance motivation; personal goals; subjective well-being; and parental, teacher, and cultural influences on motivation and self-regulation. Carol S. Dweck, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, and has published significant work in the area of achievement motivation since the early 1970s. Dr. Dweck is one of the first researchers linking attributions to patterns of achievement motivation, an originator of achievement goal theory, and a pioneer in the area of self-theories of motivation. Her recent books include Self-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development and Motivation and Self-Regulation across the Lifespan (coedited with Jutta Heckhausen). Her research is extensively cited in social, developmental, personality, and educational psychology. v This page intentionally left blank Contributors Sami Abuhamdeh, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Phillip L. Ackerman, PhD, School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Joshua Aronson, PhD, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, New York, New York John A. Bargh, PhD, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, PhD, Teachers College and College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York Kirk W. Brown, PhD, Department of P