(1) Feelings of rejection, the lack of social support and dissatisfaction of social needs influence academic motivation and performance in school; students feeling lonely in the classroom are more likely to give up in learning situations and have a higher rate of school drop-out. (2) Students’ academic achievement and their choice of peer groups are related; students having similar achievement ...

The current study re-examined Chickering’s (1967) Student Development theory, which suggests student development decreases as academic conditions become constant and the novelty of the academic environment fades. Additionally, the researchers examined whether the need to present a GPA after graduation could be associated with academic motivation, importance, or effort (the academic variables). ...

With the population of postgraduates increasing in China, their academic study has attracted the attention of second language acquisition researchers. But the research into postgraduates’ motivation and autonomy is unfortunately scarce. This study explores the relationship between learning motivation and learner autonomy among English-major postgraduates based on the questionnaire administered ...

OBJECTIVE The current study investigated the relationship between different types of academic motives-specifically, intrinsic motivation, introjected regulation, and external regulation-and high school students' current and lifetime alcohol consumption. METHOD One thousand sixty-seven high school students completed measures of academic motivation, other school-related factors, and lifetime an...