Title

Mediating Relationships Between Academic Motivation, Academic Integration And Academic Performance

Keywords

Academic integration; Academic motivation; Academic performance; Bootstrap mediation; First-year college students

Abstract

Using 81 first-year college students, researchers examined the indirect effects of seven types of academic motivation on academic performance when mediated by academic integration. When accounting for all other types of academic motivation in the statistical model, academic integration only mediated the relationship between intrinsic motivation to accomplish things and first-year grade point average (GPA). Therefore, students who attend college to gain a sense of accomplishment believe that college helps them develop intellectually and they perform well academically. However, when each motivation type was considered independently of the others, intrinsic motivation to know was also indirectly related to GPA, suggesting that students who enjoy learning are likely to perceive the intellectual benefits of college as well. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Learning and Individual Differences

Volume

33

Number of Pages

30-38

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2014.04.007

Socpus ID

84901852260 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84901852260

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