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Doctoral Students' Autonomous Motivation and Self-efficacy Beliefs as an Impact on Work Engagement

Ekim, Zeynep LU (2020) PSYP01 20192
Department of Psychology
Abstract
Considering the increasing dropout rate of doctoral studies, this study gives a deeper understanding of the factors related to doctoral students’ work engagement and motivation. The aim of this study is to predict work engagement for doctoral students through internal aspects; autonomous motivation and general self-efficacy. The effect of general self-efficacy on the relationship between autonomous motivation and work engagement was assessed. Possible factors for doctoral students’ autonomous and controlled motivation were also examined. A total number of 182 doctoral students from a Swedish University participated. The result indicated that doctoral students’ autonomous motivation and self-efficacy predicted their work engagement. The... (More)
Considering the increasing dropout rate of doctoral studies, this study gives a deeper understanding of the factors related to doctoral students’ work engagement and motivation. The aim of this study is to predict work engagement for doctoral students through internal aspects; autonomous motivation and general self-efficacy. The effect of general self-efficacy on the relationship between autonomous motivation and work engagement was assessed. Possible factors for doctoral students’ autonomous and controlled motivation were also examined. A total number of 182 doctoral students from a Swedish University participated. The result indicated that doctoral students’ autonomous motivation and self-efficacy predicted their work engagement. The mediator effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between autonomous motivation and work-engagement was found. Furthermore, doctoral students who were at the beginning of their studies indicated higher autonomous motivation compared to the students who were in the middle of their studies, and close to graduation or just graduated. (Less)
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author
Ekim, Zeynep LU
supervisor
organization
course
PSYP01 20192
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
doctoral studies, work-engagement, autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, self-efficacy, SDT
language
English
id
9003882
date added to LUP
2020-02-05 17:08:07
date last changed
2020-02-05 17:08:07
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  abstract     = {{Considering the increasing dropout rate of doctoral studies, this study gives a deeper understanding of the factors related to doctoral students’ work engagement and motivation. The aim of this study is to predict work engagement for doctoral students through internal aspects; autonomous motivation and general self-efficacy. The effect of general self-efficacy on the relationship between autonomous motivation and work engagement was assessed. Possible factors for doctoral students’ autonomous and controlled motivation were also examined. A total number of 182 doctoral students from a Swedish University participated. The result indicated that doctoral students’ autonomous motivation and self-efficacy predicted their work engagement. The mediator effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between autonomous motivation and work-engagement was found. Furthermore, doctoral students who were at the beginning of their studies indicated higher autonomous motivation compared to the students who were in the middle of their studies, and close to graduation or just graduated.}},
  author       = {{Ekim, Zeynep}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Doctoral Students' Autonomous Motivation and Self-efficacy Beliefs as an Impact on Work Engagement}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}