Cognitive and motivational constructs in portuguese and chinese students: an exploratory case study

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Pereira, Cristina

Zafer Bekirogullari, Melis Y. Minas & Roslind X. Thambusamy

PEREIRA, Cristina (2019) - Cognitive and motivational constructs in portuguese and chinese students: an exploratory case study. In International Conference on Education & Educational Psychology, 9, Athens, 2-5 october, 2018. Athens: Zafer Bekirogullari, Melis Y. Minas & Roslind X. Thambusamy. p. 387-400.

ISSN: 2357-1330

Cognitive and motivational constructs in portuguese and chinese students: an exploratory case study

Portuguese and chinese students
Projects of future
Locus of control
Satisfaction with life
Subjective happiness

2019-07-10T08:30:24Z
2019-07-10T08:30:24Z
2019

Considering ever-increasing globalization and the context of multicultural societies the need of crosscultural studies is vital for understanding the changes in cultural phenomena and to introduce adaptations in multicultural educational contexts. The culture has an intrinsic relation with the way we think and has also an important function in collective programming of the mind. In this sense, it is important to analyze their relationship with cognitive and motivational constructs, namely the concepts “projects of future”, “subjective happiness”, “satisfaction with life” and “locus of control”. These constructs are essential to psychology since they have significant implications in the adaptation process and behavioral regulation. Based on these assumptions, the present study is organized as an exploratory case study with a convenience sample limited to a small number of Portuguese and Chinese young people attending a degree in education at the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal. The findings suggest the existence of coincident aspects in the profiles of the Portuguese and Chinese students in the motivational and cognitive variables analyzed that seems to corroborate the convergence perspective that suggests that the recent socioeconomics changes in Chinese society and ever-increasing globalization contribute to a gradual convergence of concepts and perspectives with the western culture.
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