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| Age differences in achievement goals and motivational characteristics of work in an ageing workforce | | Author(s) | Heike Heidemeier, Ursula M Staudinger |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 35, no 4, April 2015 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, April 2015 |
| Pages | pp 809-836 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Employees ; Age groups [elderly] ; Employment of older people ; Attitude ; Performance ; Comparison ; Germany. |
| Annotation | This German study reviews theory and results from developmental psychology to examine age differences in workplace achievement goals. The authors investigated whether goal level decreases with age and, by comparing the relative strength of different goals within individuals, they examined whether dominant achievement goals are related to age. In a large sample of employees (N=747), older workers' higher affective commitment and intrinsic motivation compensated for age-related decline in the importance of achievement goals. Whether learning approach and learning avoidance were dominant goals was not related to age, but rather to skill level, affective commitment and intrinsically satisfying work. Dominant performance approach goals were more common among males. Performance avoidance was most likely to be a dominant goal among older males. Moreover, with age, performance goal orientations had increasingly maladaptive consequences for self-efficacy and affect at work. The study was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research, and the European Social Fund (grant number 01 FA0712). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150623028 A |
| Classmark | WK: BB: GC: DP: 5H: 48: 767 |
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