Hackett, James (2023) To What Extent Can Need for Cognition and Curiosity Predict Academic Engagement? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Academic Engagement in contemporary literature has been studied with regards to Academic Achievement. The factors that predict Academic Engagement are somewhat known but have not been explored fully. We aimed to use the previously separately studied factors of Curiosity and Need for Cognition together to predict Academic Engagement. To gain new knowledge, Curiosity was split into three aspects: Joyous Exploration, Deprivation Sensitivity, and Stress Tolerance. The last two of which had not been studied before with regards to Academic Engagement. We conducted a survey of first, second, and third-year university students studying psychology using validated multi-item scales. The order of the scales was randomised for each participant. Due to reward schemes, we were able to gather a large though relatively homogenous sample (N=608) of psychology students. We found that our study corroborated previous studies that showed Curiosity positively predicting Academic Engagement. This was newly shown across its three aspects. However, when combined with Curiosity we were unable to replicate previous studies that showed Need for Cognition positively predicting Academic Engagement. With the Curiosity aspects accounted for, Need for Cognition appears to not make a valuable contribution to the explained variance of Academic Engagement. Our study results imply that including Curiosity makes Need for Cognition’s uniquely explained variance of Academic Engagement negligible. Keywords: Academic Engagement, Curiosity, Joyous Exploration, Deprivation Sensitivity, Stress Tolerance, Need for Cognition
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Garcia Pimenta, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jul 2023 09:06 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2023 09:06 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2452 |
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