Document Type : Research Paper
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1 M.A. in Educational Educational Psychology, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran.
Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of affects in the relationship between developmental goals and working memory performance. The research method was descriptive, based on the correlation model, from the path analysis type. The statistical population included all students of Yasouj University in the academic year of 2021-2022, that from this population, 360 students were selected by using the multi-stage cluster sampling method and applied to the working memory questionnaires of Daneman and Carpenter (1980), the progress goals of Midgley et al. (1998), and the affect scale of Watson et al. (1988). The evaluation of the proposed model was investigated through path analysis and mediating relationships in the proposed model using the bootstrap method. Findings related to the direct effects of achievement goals on memory performance showed that mastery goals have a direct and significant effect on memory performance and direct effects of performance goals and objectives. Avoidance on memory performance was not significant. The results also showed that negative affect had a direct and significant effect on memory performance but the direct effect of positive affect on working memory performance was not significant. Findings related to indirect relationships also showed that mastery goals and avoidance goals through positive and negative affects have a significant indirect effect on working memory performance, but the indirect effect of functional goals through positive and negative affects on working memory performance was not meaningful. Finally, the results showed that the proposed model fits the data. Therefore, affect-mediated mastery and avoidance goals have an indirect effect on working memory performance, it is suggested to pay more attention to the type of goal that people choose and the emotions affected by it in order to improve working memory performance.
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