The impact of comptitive goals and independent goals on problem solving approach and blaming approach

The purpose of this paper is to examine the students' perception of the impact of competitive goal and independent goal on problem solving approach and blaming approach in Hong Kong higher education. A survey methodology was employed in this study and totally 167 questionnaires were collected from Universities in Hong Kong. The findings show that (i) there was significant negative correlation between the competitive goals and problem solving approach; (ii) there was significant positive correlation between the competitive goals and blaming approach; (iii) there was significant negative correlation between the independent goals and problem solving approach and (iv) there was significant positive correlation between the independent goals and blaming approach.