NDLI: The Effects of Identity-Relevance and Task Difficulty on Task Motivation, Stress, and Performance

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Britt, Thomas W.
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Tested the hypothesis that the identity-relevance of a performance domain would predict task motivation, stress, and actual performance. Psychology majors and non-majors (N = 94) completed either moderately difficult or very difficulty questions from a standardized verbal aptitude test. Before the test participants were told that performance on the test was either predictive of success as a psychologist (identity-relevant condition) or were given no information on the predictive ability of the test (control condition). Results revealed that only psychology majors evidenced higher motivation and stress in the identity-relevant condition in comparison to the control condition. The results of actual test performance revealed that when identity-relevance was high, psychology majors tended to do better than non-majors on a task of moderate difficulty, but tended to do worse on a task of high difficulty. Implications of the results for identity-relevance as a motivational and emotional lynchpin for performance are discussed.
Starting Page	189
Ending Page	202
Page Count	14
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01467239
Journal	Motivation and Emotion
Volume Number	29
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15736644
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2005-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	identity-relevance stress motivation performance engagement Clinical Psychology Personality & Social Psychology Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Psychology

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