Mastering One’s Destiny: Mastery Goals Promote Challenge and Success Despite Social Identity Threat  

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Stout, Jane G. ; Dasgupta, Nilanjana

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 39 no. 6 (Jun. 2013), page 748-762.
Topik: Social Identity Threat; Achievement Goals; Stress Appraisals; Shallenge; Performance
Fulltext: Pers Soc Psychol Bull-2013-Stout-748-62_Pas.pdf (697.56KB)

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We used an achievement goal framework to enhance identity-threatened individuals’ motivation and performance by way of an understudied mechanism, namely, challenge appraisals. In three experiments, women were given a mastery goal (focus on building skills) or a performance goal (perform well, avoid errors) before a mock job interview. Women who focused on mastery rather than performance felt more challenged and less threatened when anticipating an identity-threatening interview; goals did not affect appraisals of a nonthreatening interview (Experiment 1). Mastery relative to performance goals enhanced women’s intention to be assertive (Experiment 2) and their actual face-to-face performance during the job interview (Experiment 3); challenge appraisals (but not threat appraisals) served as a mediator for these effects. Whereas a great deal of prior work has alleviated identity threat by altering construals of one’s identity, the current research uses an alternative strategy—modifying appraisals of the situation, leaving one’s self-concept intact.

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