PAN India Dataset of Goal-orientation dispositions, Self-determination and Thriving at Work for private university educational professionals.

This dataset was used to test the moderating role of goal orientation dispositions on the direct effect of self-determination on thriving at work. The latent variables included self-determination (SD) as the independent variable, thriving at work (TW) as the dependent variable, and goal orientation (GO) as the moderating variable. Goal-orientation dispositions were measured considering its four types: mastery-approach goal orientation, mastery-avoidance goal orientation, performance-approach goal orientation, and performance-avoidance goal orientation. A quantitative dataset was generated from educational professionals working in private universities across the states of the Indian subcontinent. Email survey was employed, and valid responses from 396 respondents were tabulated and organized as demographic and scale data. Statistical findings show that goal orientation dispositions do not moderate the direct effect relationship between self-determination and thriving at work. This finding was unique and interpreted that irrespective of the nature of disposition undertaken in an achievement or competence-based work environment, it does not deter the sample respondents from their state of achieving intellectual and psychological growth.
Reliable and validated measurement scales were used to generate the data. The independent variable of self-determination was measured using the Work-related basic needs satisfaction scale (W-BNS), Vanden Broeck et al. (2010), considering all the 23-items across the three dimensions of autonomy (7-items), competence (6-items) and relatedness (10-items). The dependent variable used the Thriving at Work scale, Porath et al. (2012) having 10-items across the two dimensions of vitality (5-items) and learning (5-items). The moderating variable of goal orientation was measured using the 2 × 2 Framework of achievement goals for a work domain scale, Baranik et al. (2007) having four dimensions of mastery-approach goal orientation (4-items), mastery-avoidance goal orientation (4-items), performance-approach goal orientation (4-items), and performance-avoidance goal orientation (4-items). All items were measured on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). The scales included reverse-coded items. The dataset can be utilized for comparative studies with respect to studying the nature of goal orientation disposition among educational professionals working in other types of educational institutions. It can be used to compare the nature of goal orientation most suitable when working in non-academic settings enabling to gain insights when employees move from the academe to the industry and vice versa.

本数据集用于检验目标定向特质在自我决定（self-determination, SD）对职场蓬勃状态（thriving at work, TW）的直接效应中的调节作用。本研究的潜变量包括：自变量自我决定（self-determination, SD）、因变量职场蓬勃状态（thriving at work, TW）以及调节变量目标定向（goal orientation, GO）。目标定向特质的测量涵盖四类：掌握趋近目标定向、掌握回避目标定向、成绩趋近目标定向与成绩回避目标定向。本量化数据集的样本来自印度次大陆各邦私立高校的教育从业者，研究采用电子邮件问卷调查法，最终回收396份有效问卷，数据整理为人口统计学数据与量表数据两类。统计分析结果显示，目标定向特质并未对自我决定与职场蓬勃状态间的直接效应起到调节作用。该结论具有独特性，其解读为：无论在成就导向或能力导向的工作环境中，目标定向特质均不会阻碍样本受访者实现智力与心理成长。

本数据集采用经过信效度检验的标准化量表生成。自变量自我决定采用Vanden Broeck等人（2010）开发的工作相关基本需求满足量表（Work-related basic needs satisfaction scale, W-BNS）进行测量，该量表涵盖自主性（7个题项）、能力感（6个题项）与关联性（10个题项）三个维度，共23个题项。因变量职场蓬勃状态采用Porath等人（2012）开发的职场蓬勃状态量表（Thriving at Work scale）进行测量，该量表包含活力（5个题项）与学习（5个题项）两个维度，共10个题项。调节变量目标定向采用Baranik等人（2007）开发的工作领域成就目标2×2框架量表进行测量，该量表包含四个维度：掌握趋近目标定向（4个题项）、掌握回避目标定向（4个题项）、成绩趋近目标定向（4个题项）与成绩回避目标定向（4个题项）。所有题项均采用1（完全不同意）至5（完全同意）的5点李克特量表进行计分，量表包含反向计分题项。

本数据集可用于开展比较研究，例如对比不同类型教育机构中教育从业者的目标定向特质特征；亦可用于比较非学术工作场景下最适配的目标定向类型，从而为员工从学术界转向产业界或反向流动时的职业调整提供理论参考。