Hamidizadeh, Arian and Cleary, Una and Dissel, Lisette and Hackett, James and Briny, Oliver (2023) The Effect of Epistemic Curiosity, Stress Tolerance and Need for Cognition on Academic Engagement in Undergraduate University Students. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This cross-sectional study is the first to have investigated the effects of the two sub- dimensions of epistemic curiosity - joyous exploration and deprivation sensitivity - stress tolerance and need for cognition on academic engagement. Building upon previous research which found positive relationships between these four cognitive motivational traits and academic engagement, this study investigated the effects of joyous exploration, deprivation sensitivity, stress tolerance and need for cognition on academic engagement within a unified model. Based on previous research, this study hypothesised that all four constructs demonstrate a unique positive effect on academic engagement. 507 first-year and 101 second- or third-year Dutch undergraduate psychology students filled in an online questionnaire, indicating their levels of curiosity, stress tolerance, need for cognition and academic engagement. The standard multiple regression analysis indicated the model explained a moderate amount of variance in academic engagement. It further indicated that joyous exploration, deprivation sensitivity and stress tolerance are significant positive predictors of academic engagement, while NFC is not. These results offer a more nuanced and complete perspective of the predictors of academic engagement and corrects inadequate assumptions inferred of previous studies. Future research might focus replicating the study within a different, more varied student population and investigate the effect of other cognitive motivational traits on academic engagement.
| 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 09:09 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jul 2023 09:09 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2454 |
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