Achievement and Motivation: A Different Perspective on Familiar Concepts

Abstract

Motivation, the powerful force behind our behavior, takes place in various areas of one's life. As globalization has a great impact on the world, individuals not only compete with their peers but also contend with the universe in terms of self- actualization. In psychological terms, self-actualization is a prevalent need for everybody, enabled by the success in different majors. To understand this mechanism, motivation should be considered as an inner force of accomplishments. In this article, achievement and motivation were evaluated thoroughly based on the constructive approaches such as Sternberg's Triarchic Intelligence Theory, Dweck's Implicit Theory of Intelligence, and Achievement Goal Conceptualization. The notion of achievement in educational areas was appreciated with respect to competent-relevant, self-related, relational, demographic, environmental variables and neuropsychological tendencies. They were regarded as the effects on the achievement goal orientations, leading to the processes and consequences of the success. As a result of the analysis in the study, it was observed that in one's academic motivation, mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach and performance-avoidance inclinations provide a meta-analytic insight for him. The suggestions pertinent to these concepts were proposed precisely to the ones dealing with the challenges in this area.