Achievement Goals, Task Value, and Expectancy As Predictors of Maladaptive Academic Help-Seeking: A Mediation Analysis

This study our understanding of academic help-seeking by demonstrating that task value, self-efficacy, and cost influence academic help-seeking indirectly and directly through achievement goals. Findings highlight how motivational beliefs shape students’ help-seeking orientations, offering new insight into the mechanisms linking expectancy-value constructs to adaptive and maladaptive academic help-seeking orientations.