The Intermediary Roles of Achievement Motivation and Control Motivation:the Effect of Secondary School Students' Psychological Needs on Their Achievement Goals

This study aims to explore the internal mechanism for the effect of secondary school students' basic needs satisfaction on their achievement goal orientation,and the role of motivation between them,by using the Basic Needs Satisfaction Scale,the Motivation Structure Questionnaire,and the Achievement Goal Questionnaire to survey 2654 secondary school students.The results show the following:( 1) There is a significant correlation between the students' basic needs satisfaction,achievement goal orientation,and motivation;( 2) their basic needs satisfaction helps significantly negatively predict their performance avoidance goal,and significantly positively predict their mastery goal and performance approaching goal; and( 3) their achievement motivation and control motivation mediate between the effect of their basic needs satisfaction on their achievement goal orientation; specifically,their basic needs satisfaction has,through the agency of their control motivation,an indirect effect on their performance approaching goal and performance avoidance goal,and has,through the agency of their achievement motivation,an indirect effect on their performance approaching goal and mastery goal.