“…In sum, more research is needed to understand how competence beliefs, task values, and perceived costs combine in science and to understand how such motivational profiles relate to STEM outcomes. A handful of researchers have examined expectancy‐value beliefs using person‐oriented methods (Andersen & Chen, ; Bøe & Henriksen, ; Chow et al, ; Conley, ; Linnenbrink‐Garcia et al, ; Viljaranta, Nurmi, Aunola, & Salmela‐Aro, ; Wang et al, ) and only two of these studies included competence beliefs and task values along with a measure of perceived costs (Bøe & Henriksen, ; Conley, ) in the profile analysis. Furthermore, only a few studies focused on science expectancy‐value beliefs in particular (Andersen & Chen, ; Bøe & Henriksen, ; Chow et al, ; Linnenbrink‐Garcia et al, ).…”