Multiple goal pursuit in social-professional learning. The case of unemployed jobseekers.

Jacot, Anne;Raemdonck, Isabel;Frenay, Mariane
(2012) 13thth International Conference on Motivation — Location: Frankfurt, Germany (28.August.2012)

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The purpose of this present paper is to investigate the different types of goals low-qualified unemployed jobseekers pursue in social-professional learning situations and to understand the dynamics of multiple goal pursuit and how these dynamics influence commitment in social-professional learning. Moreover, this research aims to develop a methodology which is also applicable to low-qualified populations who may face problems related to reading and comprehension. These two theoretical issues were examined through the lens of the hierarchical structure of goals proposed by Carver and Scheier (1998, 2000). According to these authors, goals are defined by two dimensions: the abstraction level of goals (be goals versus do goals) and the degree of integration between goals (highly connected goals versus isolated goals). Both dimensions are important determinants of the importance people attribute to learning goals (hypotheses 1, 2). We also assume that goal importance and self-efficacy towards the attainment of the goal determine commitment to the learning goal (hypotheses 3, 4). At last, we expect goal importance and self-efficacy to be related to each other (hypothesis 5). A questionnaire was developed to measure participants` goal pursuit in social-professional learning and existing scales were adapted to measure the five variables mentioned above. The questionnaire was screened by five experts and pre-tested with two unemployed jobseekers. Data was collected from a sample of jobseekers from forty training centers for social-professional integration in the French-speaking part of Belgium. The data collection will be completed by the end of January 2012.
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Jacot, A., Raemdonck, I., & Frenay, M. (2012). Multiple goal pursuit in social-professional learning. The case of unemployed jobseekers. 13thth International Conference on Motivation, Frankfurt, Germany. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/198198