BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to identify burnout and quality of life profiles of medical students and determine their associations with academic motivation and achievement on progress tests using a person-oriented approach. METHODS Medical students (n = 670) in Year 3 to Year 5 at the University of Auckland were classified into three different profiles as derived from a two-step clust...

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...

INTRODUCTION Using self-determination theory as the theoretical framework, we conducted a longitudinal investigation of the relationships between motivation and athlete burnout. We tested four hypotheses: H0: low self-determination (SD) does not precede burnout, and burnout does not precede low SD; H1: low SD precedes burnout; H2: burnout precedes low SD; and H3: burnout and motivation have a r...

With the purpose of adapting the sport motivation scale (Pelletier, Fortier, Vallerand, Tuscon, Briere, & Blais, 1995) to the population of students in the final grades of elementary school, that is, with the purpose of measuring their motivation in physical education classes, 305 female and male students of finishing grades were examined. All scales had good metric characteristics, except the ...

Despite the widespread use of e-learning in higher education, little is known about the motivational orientations of learners who are required to use it. The current research explores the role of amotivation within the compulsory e-learning component of a blended learning course at one Japanese university. The investigation takes the form of three connected studies. In Study-I, the Academic Amo...

Stressor exposure biases decision-making strategies from those based on the relationship between actions and their consequences to others restricted by stimulus-response associations. Chronic stressor exposure also desensitizes glucocorticoid receptors (GR) and diminishes motivation to acquire food reinforcement, although causal relationships are largely not established. We show that a history ...

The purpose of the four studies described in this article was to develop and test a new measure of competitive sport participants' intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation (self-determination theory; Deci & Ryan, 1985). The items for the new measure, named the Behavioral Regulation in Sport Questionnaire (BRSQ), were constructed using interviews, expert review, and pilot test...