Is student motivation related to socio-digital participation?

This recent study examined whether high school students with different motivational (i.e., achievement goal orientation) profiles display different patterns of socio-digital participation. The results showed that adaptive motivational orientations towards school were also associated with higher ICT-skills and use of ICT for academic purposes. In turn, more maladaptive orientations were associated with being more likely to use social media intensively (especially so for girls), and with more intense gaming (especially for boys).