Exploring Academic Motivation: A Factor Analysis on Personality, Academic Motivation and Time-Investment
(2025) PSYK12 20251Department of Psychology
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Denna studie undersökte möjligheten att använda icke-kontextuella mått på motivation:
Tidsinvestering och Personlighet. Dessa icke-kontextuella mått utvärderades utifrån deras förmåga att predicera genomsnittligt betyg (GPA), ett vanligt använt mått på akademisk prestation och indikator för akademisk motivation. Resultaten analyserades via explorativ faktoranalys och multipel linjär regression baserade på enkätdata från n=94. Enkäten bestod av två redan existerande skalor, the Shortened Academic Motivation Scale (SAMS) och Mini-International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP) utformade för att mäta akademisk motivation och personlighetsdrag. Ytterligare 10 frågor gällande tidsinvestering som konstruerats av författarna ingick i enkäten.... (More) - Denna studie undersökte möjligheten att använda icke-kontextuella mått på motivation:
Tidsinvestering och Personlighet. Dessa icke-kontextuella mått utvärderades utifrån deras förmåga att predicera genomsnittligt betyg (GPA), ett vanligt använt mått på akademisk prestation och indikator för akademisk motivation. Resultaten analyserades via explorativ faktoranalys och multipel linjär regression baserade på enkätdata från n=94. Enkäten bestod av två redan existerande skalor, the Shortened Academic Motivation Scale (SAMS) och Mini-International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP) utformade för att mäta akademisk motivation och personlighetsdrag. Ytterligare 10 frågor gällande tidsinvestering som konstruerats av författarna ingick i enkäten. Deltagarna var gymnasieelever och universitetsstudenter i åldrarna 16-30. Författarna hade en hypotes om att en latent faktor bestående av Femfaktormodellen av personlighet, tidsinvestering och akademisk motivation skulle framträda, vilket inte hände. SAMS-modellen var den starkaste prediktorn av betyg. Fritid dedikerad till studerande förklarade 5% av variansen i betyg. Personlighet uppvisade oväntade resultat då det varken predicerade GPA eller tidsinvestering, samt bidrog minimalt i
faktoranalysen. Resultaten indikerar att tidsinvestering är en potentiellt viktig faktor att undersöka vidare och ta i beaktning för ökad förståelse gällande förståelse och mätningar av motivation i stort. Även frågor angående motivation som kontextbundet fenomen eller generell psykologisk konstrukt diskuterades som viktiga aspekter för framtida forskning i utforskandet av icke-kontextbundna mätningar av motivation. (Less) - Abstract
- This study investigated the possibility of using non-contextual measurements of motivation: Time-investment and Personality. These non-contextual measurements were evaluated based on their ability to predict Grade Point Average (GPA), a commonly used metric of academic performance and used tangible for academic motivation. Results were analysed through exploratory factor analyses (EFA) and multiple regression analysis based on survey-responses, n=94. The survey consisted of two pre-existing scales, the Shortened Academic Motivation Scale (SAMS) and Mini-International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP) to assess academic motivation and personality profiles, along with an additional 10-items relating to time-investment constructed by the... (More)
- This study investigated the possibility of using non-contextual measurements of motivation: Time-investment and Personality. These non-contextual measurements were evaluated based on their ability to predict Grade Point Average (GPA), a commonly used metric of academic performance and used tangible for academic motivation. Results were analysed through exploratory factor analyses (EFA) and multiple regression analysis based on survey-responses, n=94. The survey consisted of two pre-existing scales, the Shortened Academic Motivation Scale (SAMS) and Mini-International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP) to assess academic motivation and personality profiles, along with an additional 10-items relating to time-investment constructed by the authors. Participants were Swedish gymnasium and university students aged 16-30. The authors hypothesized a latent factor consisting of components from time-investment, the Five Factor Model of personality (FFM) and the SAMS to emerge, which was not the case. The SAMS-model was found to be the best predictor of GPA. Free Time Spent Studying - one variable from Time-Investment - explained 5% of the variance in GPA. The analysis on personality provided unexpected results as personality traits predicted neither GPA or Time-Investment, and in general did not contribute much to any factor. Findings suggests time to be a factor worth investigating further in terms of understanding and measuring motivation on a deeper level. Questions regarding motivation being context dependent or a general construct were also discussed as a basis for future exploration of non-contextual measurements of motivation. (Less)
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- Stenberg, Allan LU and Karlsson, Markus LU
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- PSYK12 20251
- year
- 2025
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- M2 - Bachelor Degree
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- Motivation, Time-Investment, Personality, Academic Motivation, Academic Motivation Scale, Tidsinvestering, Personlighet, Akademisk Motivation
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- English
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abstract = {{This study investigated the possibility of using non-contextual measurements of motivation: Time-investment and Personality. These non-contextual measurements were evaluated based on their ability to predict Grade Point Average (GPA), a commonly used metric of academic performance and used tangible for academic motivation. Results were analysed through exploratory factor analyses (EFA) and multiple regression analysis based on survey-responses, n=94. The survey consisted of two pre-existing scales, the Shortened Academic Motivation Scale (SAMS) and Mini-International Personality Item Pool (Mini-IPIP) to assess academic motivation and personality profiles, along with an additional 10-items relating to time-investment constructed by the authors. Participants were Swedish gymnasium and university students aged 16-30. The authors hypothesized a latent factor consisting of components from time-investment, the Five Factor Model of personality (FFM) and the SAMS to emerge, which was not the case. The SAMS-model was found to be the best predictor of GPA. Free Time Spent Studying - one variable from Time-Investment - explained 5% of the variance in GPA. The analysis on personality provided unexpected results as personality traits predicted neither GPA or Time-Investment, and in general did not contribute much to any factor. Findings suggests time to be a factor worth investigating further in terms of understanding and measuring motivation on a deeper level. Questions regarding motivation being context dependent or a general construct were also discussed as a basis for future exploration of non-contextual measurements of motivation.}},
author = {{Stenberg, Allan and Karlsson, Markus}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Exploring Academic Motivation: A Factor Analysis on Personality, Academic Motivation and Time-Investment}},
year = {{2025}},
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