The Role of Cultural factors on Social and Achievement Goals Motivation

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The present study hypothesized that student’s motivational goals could be predicted by cultural factors such as ethnic identity (exploration and commitment) and social achievement goals (social development, social demonstration-approach, and social demonstration-avoidance). A total of one-hundred fifty-nine university students participated in the study with the results showed that students’ social goals motivation positively predicted achievement motivational goals, but ethnic identity did not predict any motivational goals. Students’ horizontal and vertical relationships within the Indonesian context, was also measured in relations to their social achievement goals and ethnic identity. In the Indonesian context, vertical relationships pattern had predictive role on social demonstration-approach goal.
Keywords: social achievement goals, ethnic identity, horizontal and vertical cultural orientation, achievement goals motivation