ERIC Number: EJ1111699
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Jun
Pages: 29
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ISSN: ISSN-2014-3591
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Personality and Academic Motivation: Replication, Extension, and Replication
Jones, Martin H.; McMichael, Stephanie N.
International Journal of Educational Psychology, v4 n2 p170-197 Jun 2015
Previous work examines the relationships between personality traits and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. We replicate and extend previous work to examine how personality may relate to achievement goals, efficacious beliefs, and mindset about intelligence. Approximately 200 undergraduates responded to the survey with a 150 participants replicating the study two weeks later. When comparing data from the first and second collections, three of the five pathways for personality and achievement goals were replicated: neuroticism, openness, and agreeableness. For personality and efficacy three of the eight pathways remained significant from the first collection to the second. Openness was the only personality factor that significantly predicted participants' mindset about their intelligence. Results suggest certain personality traits may correspond with different motivational self-beliefs, but these results were neither reliable nor consistent.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Learning Motivation, Replication (Evaluation), Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Achievement Need, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Student Surveys, Likert Scales, Personality Measures, Neurosis, Predictor Variables, Intelligence, Reliability, Multivariate Analysis, Path Analysis, Regression (Statistics), Correlation, Learning Strategies
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Academic Motivation Scale; Learning and Study Strategies Inventory; NEO Five Factor Inventory; Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey
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