Consistently in achievement goal research, pursuing performance-avoidance goals has been associated with a decrease in achievement. Less is known to what extent this effect depends on the reasons underlying these goals’ endorsement. The present research uses a social value approach to assess how do performance-avoidance goals’ effects on achievement depend on the reasons anchored in social utility (goal endorsed in order to succeed) and in social desirability (goal endorsed in order to please one’s teachers). Based on five correlational samples meta-analyzed in Study 1, results showed that perceiving performance-avoidance goals as socially useful increased the negative effect of these goals on achievement. This moderating effect was replicated experimentally in Study 2. These findings support the relevance of studying achievement goal complexes and illustrate that performance-avoidance goals may lead to deleterious consequences even when endorsed for seemingly good reasons.

在成就目标研究中，始终如一地追求绩效回避目标与成就下降有关。这种影响在多大程度上取决于这些目标的认可背后的原因，我们知之甚少。本研究使用社会价值方法来评估绩效回避目标对成就的影响如何取决于基于社会效用（为成功而认可的目标）和社会期望（为取悦老师而认可的目标）的原因。 . 基于研究 1 中元分析的五个相关样本，结果表明，将绩效回避目标视为对社会有用会增加这些目标对成就的负面影响。在研究 2 中通过实验复制了这种调节作用。