Achievement Goals and Academic Locus of Control: Structural Equation Modeling

Abstract

Conclusions and Recommendations: This study reports that the academic locus of control affects achievement goals directly. Students high in the external academic locus of control are more likely to adopt LVGO, PPGO, and PVGO than are students that are high in the internal academic locus of control. In contrast, students high in the internal academic locus of control are more likely to adopt LPGO and LVGO than are students that are high in the external academic locus of control. That the samples presented here are limited to university students restricts the generalizability of the findings. For that reason, it is also important to investigate the variables studied in this research on sample groups other than university students.