The Relationship of Motivation and Learning Strategies to Classroom Performance among College Students enrolled in Food and Nutrition Courses

College students are sleeping less during the week than reported a few years ago. Lack of sleep among college students has been identified as one of the top three healthrelated impediments to academic performance by the American College Health Associations National College Health Assessment survey; and it is associated with lower grades, incompletion of courses, as well as negative moods. This research examines the underlying dynamics of lack of sleep on academic motivation, a key predictor of academic performance. Specifically, the relationship of sleep habits with self-efficacy, performance versus mastery goal orientation, persistence, and tendency to procrastinate were investigated. Findings indicate that 42% of the participants (159 students out of a total of 377) experience excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS); and those identified with EDS tend: (1) to be motivated by performance goals rather than mastery goals; (2) to engage in procrastination (a self-handicapping strategy) to a greater extent than students who are rested; and (3) to have decreased self-efficacy, as compared to students not reporting EDS. Several recommendations for campus health professionals to consider for a Healthy Campus Initiative are made based on the findings.

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The Mediating Effect of Fear of Failure in the Relationship of College Students' Achievement Goal Orientation and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy

Korean Association For Learner-Centered Curriculum And Instruction ◽

10.22251/jlcci.2020.20.11.93 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (11) ◽

pp. 93-115

Author(s):

A Rim Kim ◽

Jin-ryung Kang

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Decision Making ◽

Goal Orientation ◽

Career Decision ◽

Mediating Effect ◽

Fear Of Failure ◽

Achievement Goal Orientation ◽

Career Decision Making ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

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The Approval Motive, Vicarious Reinforcement and Verbal Conditioning

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.1964.19.2.523 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 523-530 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

David Marlowe ◽

Russell S. Beecher ◽

Jonathan B. Cook ◽

Anthony N. Doob

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Verbal Conditioning ◽

Reinforcement Condition ◽

Sentence Construction ◽

Need For Approval ◽

Conditioning Effect ◽

Vicarious Reinforcement ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Construction Task

This study investigated the relationship of approval motivation to verbal conditioning under vicarious reinforcement. Fifteen college students completed 20 operant trials in a sentence construction task. They then observed E reinforce a “programmed” confederate who emitted critical responses according to a typical acquisition curve. Fifteen control Ss observed identical confederate behavior with the reinforcements omitted. An additional 15 control Ss did not receive the observation phase. All Ss then were given 40 nonreinforced trials. A significant conditioning effect occurred only for Ss with high need for approval in the vicarious reinforcement condition. Results were related to previous verbal conditioning research.

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