A Cross-National Comparison of School Motivation Profiles among Canadian and Belgian Adolescents: The Role of Parenting Practices and Youth’s Mental Health

peer reviewed ; The pursuit of learning in high school generally draws on multiple sources of motivation that could be affected by learning contexts and cultural values about education. We conducted this study to capture the complex interplay between various motivational regulation strategies across countries. Our goal was threefold: (1) to identify high-schoolers’ motivation profiles using the seven types of regulation strategies proposed by the Self-Determination Theory; (2) to investigate the role of parenting practices and youth’s mental health in predicting profile membership, and (3) to... Mehr ...