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- PublicationOpen AccessMotivational Orientations of High-Achieving Students as Mediators of a Positive Percep-tion of a High-Achieving Classmate: Results from a Cross-national Study(Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2016) Oh, Hyerim; Badia Martín, Maria del Mar; Blumen, Sheyla; Maakrun, Julie; Nguyena, Quoc An-Thu; Stack, Niamh; Sutherland, Margaret; Wormald, Catherine; Ziegler, AlbertThe purpose of this study was to explore whether and in what ways high-achieving school students’ motivational orientations influence their perceptions of a fictitious future high-achieving classmate. The final sample consisted of the 396 highest achieving students out of a sample from 1794 seventh and tenth graders from five countries: Australia, Peru, South Korea, Spain, and Vietnam. A series of stepwise regression models were used to test the hypothesis that positive perceptions of a high-achieving classmate might be mediated by an approach motivation, but not by an avoidance motivational orientation. The hypothesis was generally confirmed. Learning goal orientation and performance approach motiva-tion predicted positive perceptions of a high-achieving classmate’s intellec-tual ability, social qualities and popularity among peers, whereas a performance avoidance orientation was usually uncorrelated. However, sporadic exceptions have been found among the participants from Vietnam, South Korea, and Peru.