Exploring the relationship between individual characteristics and argumentative discourse styles: the role of achievement goals and personality traits

Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research

Table 3 Correlation between the achievement goal and discourse style

	Deliberative argumentation	Disputative argumentation	Quick consensus-seeking
Mastery goal	.730**	−.147	−.239
Performance-approach goal	−.404*	.611**	−.215
Performance-avoidance goal	.032	.156*	.627**