In sum, this study highlights the adaptive nature of social development goals over the social demonstration ones, a conclusion which replicates prior research and which mirrors the respective findings concerning the research conducted in the academic domain where, again, mastery-approach goals more reliably predict positive achievement outcomes Also, it shows that although social demonstration-approach goals entail an approach orientation, they seem less adaptive compared to social demonstration-avoid goals and their counterparts in the academic domain, the performance-approach goals And, although social demonstration-avoid goals orient the person away from an undesired situation, they seem less harmful compared to the respective academic-related performance-avoidance goals.