Abstract

The concept of possible selves, which provide the essential link between self-concept and motivation, has been developed by Markus and Nurius as the cognitive manifestation of goals, aspirations, motives, and fears. According to Markus and Nurius, possible selves are important because they function as incentives for future behavior and because they provide an evaluative and interpretive context for the current view of self. In this study, three hypothesized models were tested to verify the influence on several variables like affect, self-esteem, self-efficacy, personal-control and motivation by using covariance structure modeling. The results suggest that the model of current-self shows good fitting indices while the other two models(the model of possible-self, the model of current-self, and possible selves) are failed to show good fitting indicts.