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MPOWER: The Impact of a Purpose Program on Adolescents’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations

Purpose has been defined as an active engagement toward goals that are meaningful to the self (i.e., personal meaningfulness) and contribute to the world beyond the self (BTS). These BTS contributions may reflect the intention to meet a wide range of needs from family financial needs to more macro-l...

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Autores principales: Sepulveda, Jonathan A., Lincoln, Brenna, Liang, Belle, Klein, Timothy, White, Allison E., Hill, Nancy, Perella, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8717811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34975653
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.761580
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author Sepulveda, Jonathan A.
Lincoln, Brenna
Liang, Belle
Klein, Timothy
White, Allison E.
Hill, Nancy
Perella, John
author_facet Sepulveda, Jonathan A.
Lincoln, Brenna
Liang, Belle
Klein, Timothy
White, Allison E.
Hill, Nancy
Perella, John
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description Purpose has been defined as an active engagement toward goals that are meaningful to the self (i.e., personal meaningfulness) and contribute to the world beyond the self (BTS). These BTS contributions may reflect the intention to meet a wide range of needs from family financial needs to more macro-level concerns, including social injustices. This study investigates the efficacy of a school-based program called MPOWER expressly designed by the authors to cultivate the BTS aspect of purpose. Previous research suggests that the BTS aspect of purpose has beneficial effects on school engagement, goal-setting abilities and orientations, and ultimately school performance. Ninety-four students participated in this study that utilized a randomized, pre-test-post-test between-subjects design to evaluate MPOWER (52 in MPOWER and 42 in the control group). The ANCOVA results indicated a significant increase in the BTS aspect of purpose among program participants, compared to controls. Moreover, participants had higher post-test levels of general self-efficacy and grade point averages, and decreased performance-approach (e.g., playing to be the best, comparing self to others) and performance-avoidance (e.g., avoiding risks of failure, fear of social consequences) goal orientations. Findings can be used to design programs that aim to cultivate students’ intentions to contribute to the world beyond themselves, as well as associated personal benefits (i.e., goal orientations, self-efficacy, academic performance).
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spelling pubmed-87178112021-12-31 MPOWER: The Impact of a Purpose Program on Adolescents’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations Sepulveda, Jonathan A. Lincoln, Brenna Liang, Belle Klein, Timothy White, Allison E. Hill, Nancy Perella, John Front Psychol Psychology Purpose has been defined as an active engagement toward goals that are meaningful to the self (i.e., personal meaningfulness) and contribute to the world beyond the self (BTS). These BTS contributions may reflect the intention to meet a wide range of needs from family financial needs to more macro-level concerns, including social injustices. This study investigates the efficacy of a school-based program called MPOWER expressly designed by the authors to cultivate the BTS aspect of purpose. Previous research suggests that the BTS aspect of purpose has beneficial effects on school engagement, goal-setting abilities and orientations, and ultimately school performance. Ninety-four students participated in this study that utilized a randomized, pre-test-post-test between-subjects design to evaluate MPOWER (52 in MPOWER and 42 in the control group). The ANCOVA results indicated a significant increase in the BTS aspect of purpose among program participants, compared to controls. Moreover, participants had higher post-test levels of general self-efficacy and grade point averages, and decreased performance-approach (e.g., playing to be the best, comparing self to others) and performance-avoidance (e.g., avoiding risks of failure, fear of social consequences) goal orientations. Findings can be used to design programs that aim to cultivate students’ intentions to contribute to the world beyond themselves, as well as associated personal benefits (i.e., goal orientations, self-efficacy, academic performance). Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8717811/ /pubmed/34975653 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.761580 Text en Copyright © 2021 Sepulveda, Lincoln, Liang, Klein, White, Hill and Perella. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Klein, Timothy
White, Allison E.
Hill, Nancy
Perella, John
MPOWER: The Impact of a Purpose Program on Adolescents’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations
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title_full MPOWER: The Impact of a Purpose Program on Adolescents’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations
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title_full_unstemmed MPOWER: The Impact of a Purpose Program on Adolescents’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations
title_short MPOWER: The Impact of a Purpose Program on Adolescents’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations
title_sort mpower: the impact of a purpose program on adolescents’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivations
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8717811/
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