MOTIVATIONAL SKILLS AND SELF-REGULATION FOR LEARNING - A TRAIT PERSPECTIVE

We report a series of investigations that focus on the nature of motiv ational skills and self-regulation for learning as traits, in contrast to consideration of self-regulation as resulting from particular inte rventions. in this context, we consider how self-report measures of mo tivational and self-regulation skills relate to other traits, such as ability, personality, interests, academic self-concept, self-ratings o f abilities. rn addition, we discuss how such trait measures are assoc iated with task-specific self efficacy across tasks of varying complex ity - from simple information processing to complex air traffic contro ller tasks. Self-regulatory and motivational skills show substantial o verlap with other trait measures, as do measures of learning strategie s. Motivational and domain-specific self-concepts, along with trait an xiety, appear to be strongly related to task-specific self efficacy.