The purpose of current research is to identify the target orientation latent group of Chinese university students and to find out the effect of expected evaluation on Chinese college students' creativity for each goal orientation latent group. And provide a theoretical basis for creating a situation that enhances the creativity of Chinese college students.
In this study, Firstly, 1333 Chinese college students were selected randomly as subjects to finished a questionnaire of goal orientation targeting. According to the analyze latent profiles of subjects' goal orientation targeting, four potential groups of Chinese university students' goal orientation has been classified. Secondly, 399 subjects has been chosen randomly from each potential groups to take part in the experiment. 4(four kind of goal orientation latent profiles) x 3(expected evaluation type: without evaluation, informational expected evaluation, controlling expected evaluation) between-group design was used, evaluation type and goal orientation latent profiles as the independent variables and the creative performance as dependent variable.
The results shows that Firstly, according to the person-centered approach to identify distinct motivational profiles informed by goal-orientation theory. With 1333 sample of Chinese college students as test subjects, the present study identified four latent profiles named mastery goal dominant type, overall medium and low goals type, overall advantage goals type and Performance goal dominant type. secondly, in the experiment uncovered main effects of expected evaluation type and goal orientation targeting styles on creativity, as well as interactions between expected evaluation type and goal orientation latent profiles. Since there is no suitable evaluation for all college students, it is necessary to take both the individual characteristics and creativity tasks into consideration while encourage college students' creativity performence with expected evaluation in the education environment.