Kroon, Veerle (2024) The Influence of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation on Academic Success With Flow as a Mediator. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Our research involved 742 psychology students at the University of Groningen who filled in a questionnaire. This questionnaire included the AMS scale, assessing both extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, as well as the short DFS-2 scale, measuring flow. Student’s grade point averages (GPAs) were used to determine academic achievement. Using regression and mediation analysis in PROCESS, we determined whether intrinsic and extrinsic motivation relate to academic achievement and if flow explains this relation. Moreover, we assessed whether both types of academic motivation relate to flow occurrences. Of the 554 participants remaining after applying the exclusion criteria, the sample included mostly first year students (N= 417) who were female (N=430) and Dutch (N= 311) or German (151). The design was correlation and we aimed at running two mediation models for both predictors. Our study shows that flow partly explains the relation between high levels of intrinsic motivation and academic performance and that high levels of intrinsic motivation lead to more flow occurrences. All these results were significant. Extrinsic motivation was not related to academic performance which is why we did not compute a mediation analysis with flow. This is surprising as previous research on the subject found extrinsic motivation to predict academic achievement. Extrinsic motivation was not related to flow either. Our results point to the importance of cultivating intrinsic motivation in academic settings instead of focusing on extrinsic motivation. The role of flow between intrinsic motivation and academic achievement is relevant for understanding the mechanisms leading to academic performance and can be used to improve student’s outcomes by aiming at increasing its occurrence for example through training. However, as the relation is only partial, other variables might also contribute to this relation and deserve further research. Keywords: intrinsic motivation; extrinsic motivation; academic achievement; flow occurrences.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Garcia Pimenta, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Apr 2024 12:03 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Apr 2024 12:03 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3305 |
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