This paper examined the influence of academic motivation, satisfaction, and resilience secondary school students’ academic confidence in Ogun State, Nigeria, with the view to establishing which of the three variables would best determine students’ academic confidence. Twohypotheses were formulated and tested in the study. The sample consisted of2160students randomly selected in 24 secondary sch...

BACKGROUND Medical students' motivation is an important driving factor for academic performance, and therefore medical teachers and educators are often highly interested in this topic. This study evaluated the impact of an academic affair program upon preclinical year medical students' motivation to study. DESIGN AND METHODS An intervention study was conducted using a pretest-posttest study d...

Guided by the academic resilience perspective, the current longitudinal study examined whether academic motivation mediated the relation between Latino adolescents' (N=221) experiences with discrimination and their academic success. The potential moderating role of gender was also examined. Using multiple group analysis in structural equation modeling, findings indicated that perceived discrimi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Previous studies have shown that both personality and motivation are important factors in student academic performance. This study examined how the interactions between the Big Five personality traits and self-determination motivation orientations affect students' academic performance. The hypotheses were empirically tested using cross-sectional data collected from 249 pri...