Personal and Social Resources Interplay Synergistically to Enhance Academic Motivation

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  • Shameem Fatima
  • Humera Sharif
  • Gregory Zimet

https://doi.org/10.17583/ijep.2018.3017

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Guided by self-determination theory, the present study examines independent and interactive roles of self-efficacy and perceived social support in predicting types of academic motivation. Data were collected from 325 university undergraduates in 18-23 years of age (M=21.09, SD=1.34) from the fifth biggest city of South Asia. Results showed the independent and interactive effects of self-efficacy and social support from friends and from a significant other on intrinsic academic motivation after controlling the potential confounding due to demographics. Social support from friends, but not from family and a significant other, independently predicted extrinsic academic motivation. Neither self-efficacy nor social support significantly predicted amotivation.

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Fatima, S., Sharif, H., & Zimet, G. (2018). Personal and Social Resources Interplay Synergistically to Enhance Academic Motivation. International Journal of Educational Psychology, 7(2), 196–226. https://doi.org/10.17583/ijep.2018.3017

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