STUDENTS’ ASPIRATION, ATTRIBUTION, AND MOTIVATIONAL GOALS: A STUDY OF MINANGKABAU ETHNIC GROUP
Abstract: The study explored
students’ aspiration, attribution, and motivational goals based on one ethnic
group, Minangkabau. A total of 136 high school students from Minang ethnicity participated
for the study. Students’ aspiration had three dimensions subscales: ambition, enjoyment
of school life, and importance of school to the future. Attribution had three dimensions
in the study: locus of control-personal control, stability, and external
control. Students’ motivational goals had three dimensions: learning goals,
performance approach goals and performance avoidance goals. The analyses show
that importance of school aspiration andexternal control attribution predicted
students’ learning goal. The present study gives an important view on how
ethnicity should be considered in the study of students’ aspiration, attribution,
and motivational goals, especially when one studies such variables in a multiethnic
society.
Author: Novita W.Sutantoputri,
Juliana Murniati, and Margaretha Purwanti
Journal Code: jppsikologisosialgg140005
