Research interests: cross-cultural investigations of student motivation, engagement, and well-being.
social goals
Including social goals in achievement motivation research: Examples from the Philippines (with Dennis M. McInerney), Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (2012)
Traditional theories of achievement motivation such as achievement goal theory mostly neglected its more social...
Investigating the link between social goals and learning strategies (with Dennis M. McInerney and David A. Watkins), European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (2011)
Research in cross-cultural psychology has indicated that people from different cultures are motivated by different...
Cross-cultural validation of the five-factor structure of social goals: A Filipino investigation (with David A. Watkins), Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment (2011)
The aim of the present study was to test the cross-cultural validity of the five-factor...
“Socializing” Achievement Goal Theory: The Need for Social Goals, Psychological Studies (2011)
Cultures shape the types of goals that students pursue in the classroom. However, research in...
The reliability and validity of the Goal Orientation and Learning Strategies Survey (GOALS-S): A Filipino investigation (with David A. Watkins), The Asia Pacific Education Researcher (2011)
The Goal Orientation and Learning Strategies Survey (GOALS-S; Dowson & McInerney, 2004) is an instrument...
academic delay of gratification
All Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Validating the Chinese Version of the Academic Delay of Gratification Scale (ADOGS) (with Hongfei Du), The International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment (2011)
The objective of this study was to examine the reliability and construct validity of the...
cross-cultural
The development and validation of the Relational Self-esteem Scale (with Hongfei Du and Peilian Chi), Scandinavian Journal of Psychology (2012)
he development and validation of the Relational Self-Esteem Scale. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. According to...
Competitiveness is not that bad. . .at least in the East: Testing the hierarchical model of achievement motivation in the Asian setting (with Dennis M. McInerney and David A. Watkins), International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2011)
Competitiveness has usually been viewed as a negative trait as it leads to suboptimal outcomes....
Cross-cultural validity of the Inventory of School Motivation (ISM) in Chinese and Filipino samples (with Ganotice A. Fraide Jr. and David A. Watkins), Child Indicators Research (2011)
Students’ achievement goals in school have received increasing research attention because they have been shown...
Validation of the Chinese version of the Sense of Self (SOS) Scale (with Fraide A. Ganotice and David A. Watkins), Asia Pacific Education Review (2011)
This study explored the cross-cultural applicability of the Sense of Self (SOS) Scale in the...
academic emotions
How you think about your intelligence determines how you feel in school: The role of theories of intelligence on academic emotions, Learning and Individual Differences (2012)
Research on implicit theories of intelligence and academic emotions have proceeded in parallel with little...
What do students feel in school and how do we measure them?: Examining the psychometric properties of the S-AEQ-F., Philippine Journal of Psychology (2010)
The objective of this study was to examine the reliability and construct validity of the...
IT
Examining the application of Web 2.0 in medical related organisations (with Samuel K.W. Chu and Matsuko Woo), Health Information and Libraries Journal (2011)
Objectives: This study surveyed Web 2.0 application in three types of selected health or medical-related...
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Testing the factorial invariance of the Filipino and English versions of the Inventory of School Motivation for Filipino bilingual students (with Fraide A. Ganotice and Allan B.I. Bernardo), Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment (2012)
This study tests the invariance of the original English version and the Filipino translation of...