OBJECTIVE To investigate medical students' career choice motivation and its relationship with their academic interest and performance. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study in a sample (n=207) of medical students at a private medical school in Korea, stratified by year of medical course. Data about participant demographics, career choice motivation and academic interest were collected ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was 1) to identify factors that may influence academic stress in medical students and 2) to investigate the causal relationships among these variables with path analysis. METHODS One hundred sixty medical students participated in the present study. Psychological parameters were assessed with the Medical Stress Scale, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality...

In the last twenty years, many studies have tested the SelfDetermination Theory and the possibility to generalize the obtained results in case of academic population. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation considering the degree of autonomous motivation, academic achievement and mental health. The study was conducted on a sample of 350 second and third year students (169 male an...

The purpose of this article was to propose and test an integrative model on the role of perfectionism, academic motivation, and psychological adjustment difficulties in undergraduate students. The model posits that self-oriented perfectionism facilitates self-determined academic motivation, whereas socially prescribed perfectionism enhances non-self-determined academic motivation. In turn, self...

Language learning research in Japan has categorized students’ motivational orientations as multifaceted and leaning towards extrinsic orientations. Meanwhile, as self-determination theory correlates intrinsic motivation to academic success, we argue that enhancing intrinsic motivation is necessary to foster autonomous learners. Many studies categorize motivational orientations, but rarely, have...

nearly three decades ago, the master of public health (mph) academic degree was introduced to tehran university of medical sciences' school of public health, tehran, iran. a new program for simultaneous education of medical, pharmaceutical and dental students was initiated in 2006. talented students had the opportunity to study mph simultaneously. there were some concerns about this kind of adm...