Cleary, Una (2023) The Contribution of Cognitive Motivators to Academic Engagement in University Students. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In recent years academic engagement has gained significant attention from scholars. As it is a precursor for academic success, researchers have started researching its antecedents, to help cultivate academic engagement and achievement. This study aims to investigate whether the cognitive motivators joyous exploration, deprivation sensitivity, stress tolerance, and need for cognition significantly predict academic engagement. Building upon previous research which found positive relationships between several cognitive motivators and academic engagement, our study aims to investigate the integration of three dimensions of curiosity and need for cognition in a combined model. By examining the effects of the model we seek to determine whether the constructs contribute unique variance to academic engagement. In this study 608 undergraduate students belonging to the Bachelor of Psychology at the University of Groningen were recruited and administered a questionnaire encompassing scales pertaining to curiosity, need for cognition, and academic engagement. Their results were analyzed using a standard multiple regression analysis. The findings presented show that the three dimensions of curiosity, joyous exploration, deprivation sensitivity, and stress tolerance added significantly to academic engagement. Need for cognition did not reach the threshold for significance. This analysis demonstrates the predictive component of joyous exploration, deprivation sensitivity, stress tolerance and need for cognition in academic engagement. Future research would benefit from looking into additional predictors of engagement as the combination joyous exploration, deprivation sensitivity, stress tolerance, and need for cognition solely explained 21% of the variance in academic engagement. In conclusion, this study broadens our understanding pertaining to the antecedents influencing 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: | 20 Jul 2023 08:54 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2023 08:54 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2494 |
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