Focusing on students? motivation in Hungarian educational context

Edina Dombi (), Gabor Orosz () and Balazs Jagodics ()
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Edina Dombi: University of Szeged, Faculty of Gyula Juhász; Department of Applied Pedagogy and Psychology
Gabor Orosz: Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Psychology, Budapest
Balazs Jagodics: University of Szeged, Institute of Psychology

No 2603188, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: In the present study our aim was to explore the motivational background of high school students with the help of the Hungarian adaptation of the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS - Vallerand et al., 1992). More than 600 high school students participated in our research and their average age was 16 years old. We applied confirmatory factor analysis to test the original seven factor structure of the scale. Instead of the original structure, a five factor bifactor model appeared to be the best model. Furthermore, according to our results it seems that Hungarian students do not perceive their motivation to have internal origin, and if so, they do not differentiate between the subtypes of them.

Keywords: Extrinsic motivation; intrinsic motivation; amotivation; validation; academic motivation scale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2015-07
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 17th International Academic Conference, Vienna, Jul 2015, pages 104-104

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