Effects of achievement goals on perceptions of competence in conditions of unfavourable social comparisons: The mastery goal advantage effect.
Sviatlana KamarovaNikos L D ChatzisarantisMartin S HaggerTaru LintunenMary HassandraAthanasios PapaioannouPublished in: The British journal of educational psychology (2017)
Current findings broaden understanding of the adaptive nature of mastery-approach goals and suggest that it is possible to modulate aversive responses to unfavourable social comparisons by focusing attention on mastery-approach goals.