title: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN IDENTITY AND ACADEMIC MOTIVATION.
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 to evaluate 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.
authors: 1 Faculty of Psychology, Kyoto Notre Dame University.
authors: Rumi
authors: R
authors: Matsushima
authors: 1 Faculty of Psychology, Kyoto Notre Dame University.
authors: Hitomi
authors: H
authors: Ozaki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D009042:Motivation; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012933:Social Identification; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult