Relationships between Identity and Academic Motivation. Issue 1 (August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Matsushima, Rumi; Ozaki, Hitomi
• Is Part Of: Psychological reports. Volume 117:Issue 1(2015)
• Page Start: 217
• Page End: 229
• Publication Date: 2015-08
• Subjects: Psychology -- Periodicals; Psychiatry; Psychology; Psychologie -- Périodiques; Psychology; 150.5
• DOI: 10.2466/07.10.PR0.117c16z7
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0033-2941

Abstract

This study examined university students' academic motivation, focusing on individual differences in their sense of identity. The participants were 109 female Japanese students from two private universities (age range = 19–22 yr., M = 19.3, SD = 0.6). They completed four scales: the Multidimensional Ego Identity Scale, the Scale of Students' Attitude Toward Their Classes, the Academic Motivation Inventory, and the Scale of Lecture Self-Evaluation. Correlational analyses assessed the relationships between subscales. Then, path analysis was conducted toevaluate whether sense of identity affected attitude toward classes, academic motivation, and lecture self-evaluation. Differences particularly in psychosocial identity and self-identity accounted for significant variance in the students' attitudes toward classes, academic motivation, and lecture self-evaluation.