Iranian College Student Perfectionism, Psychological Well-Being, and Academic Achievement Motivation

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goal Ayzeen Saedu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
College Student ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Academic Achievement Motivation

scholarly journals Psychological Strengths Contributing to Rural Student’s Academic Performance in Kadazandusun

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Getrude C. Ah Gang Grace
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Academic Self Efficacy ◽  
Psychological Strengths

Achieving academic success is a shared dream among students. To achieve academic success, psychological strengths, such as psychological well-being, academic self-efficacy, and motivation, are predictors of students’ academic achievement. To examine these factors, a study was conducted on rural students from the Kadazandusun community residing in the interior Sabah division. It is predicted that each of these psychological factors may contribute to the academic achievement of these rural students. There were 668 Kadazandusun rural students from 17 rural schools in Sabah who participated in this study. A set of questionnaires comprising four parts was used to measure all the variables based on the following sequence: Section A measured demographic variables, Section B measured psychological well-being, Section C measured achievement motivation, and Section D measured academic self-efficacy. The simple regression analysis showed that each psychological factor moderately affected academic achievement. Psychological well-being, achievement motivation, and academic self-efficacy contributed 4.4%, 2.2%, and 5.1% of the variance in students’ academic achievement, respectively. This study’s results may give the Ministry of Education, schools, and parents a glimpse of hope that despite educational limitations, such as lack of infrastructure and geographical location, students’ psychological strengths can enhance rural students’ academic performance. Therefore, the educational authorities can provide more programmes regarding works that increase psychological well-being, motivation, and academic efficacy, which may contribute to the academic success of rural students.

scholarly journals Parenting Style as Correlates of Adolescents’ Academic Achievement Motivation of Bate Secondary School, Haramaya, Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amare Misganaw Mihret ◽  
Galata Sitota Dilgasa ◽  
Tsigereda Hailu Mamo
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting ◽  
Academic Achievement Motivation ◽  
Authoritarian Parenting Style

This study aimed at examining the relationship of adolescents’ academic achievement motivation and parenting styles. Data were collected from randomly selected 192 adolescent students (93 males and 99 females) through standardized scales of achievement motivation self-report inventory and parenting style scale. The data analysis has been done through both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. To this end, finding revealed that authoritarian parenting style is the most commonly practiced parenting style in the families of respondents among other three parenting styles (authoritative, indulgent and neglectful). There is a statistically significant relationship between authoritative parenting style and students’ academic achievement motivation. Significant relationship between authoritarian parenting style and students’ academic achievement motivation has also been reported. There is strong and negative relationship between neglectful parenting style and students’ academic achievement motivation. That it means, neglectful parenting negatively affects students’ academic motivation. As expected, significant relationship between indulgent parenting style and students’ academic motivation was not reported. In the end, some points were forwarded to suggest ways of properly addressing the gaps noted in this research.

Personality and Motivational Factors on an Intentional-Incidental Learning Task

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1315-1320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul N. Dixon ◽  
Audrey E. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Incidental Learning ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Intentional Learning ◽  
High Motivation ◽  
Academic Achievement Motivation ◽  
Learning Correlations ◽  
Personality Construct

Locus of control, other-direction, and academic achievement motivation were investigated as a function of acceptance of motivational cues in intentional-incidental learning. Correlations among the three personality constructs were also calculated. The subjects were 134 college students studied under high and low learning motivation for each personality construct. It was hypothesized that high academic achievement motivation would be associated with increased intentional learning and that internal subjects would have consistent intentional and incidental learning under both levels of motivation. The externals, accepting experimenter's instructions, would show a funneling effect toward greater intentional learning under high motivation with corresponding decreases in incidental learning. No significant differences on the learning task by locus of control or other-direction were found. Subjects high in achievement motivation performed significantly better on the intentional task than those low in achievement motivation. The highly motivated group performed significantly better than those who were low on the incidental task, suggesting that the motivation may focus the subject's attention toward embedded incidental cues. Significant intercorrelations were obtained among the three personality constructs.

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