TY - JOUR
AU - Neuman, Orna
AB - We proposed that help-seeking perceptions and behaviors will bemore adaptive under salient task goals relative to ego achievementgoals. A total of 159 2nd- and 6th-grade Israeli children could requesthelp as they worked on difficult puzzles in either a task or an egogoal condition. As predicted, children were more likely to request helpand to explain help avoidance as guided by strivings for independentmastery in the task-focus condition. In contrast, more children in theego-focus condition explained help avoidance in terms of maskingincapacity. Skill level moderated help seeking only in the ego-focuscondition, wherein requests for help were more frequent at intermediatethan at both high and low skill levels. The results clarify the role ofmotivational factors in promoting or undermining academic help seekingand can help resolve theoretical controversy and inconsistent empiricalfindings concerning the relation between competence and help seeking.  
TI - Effects of Task and Ego Achievement Goals on Help-Seeking Behaviors and Attitudes
JF - Journal of Educational Psychology
DO - 10.1037/0022-0663.87.2.261
DA - 1995-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/effects-of-task-and-ego-achievement-goals-on-help-seeking-behaviors-s0gErshT0R
SP - 261
EP - 271
VL - 87
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -