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• Title: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Academic Motivation of University Students in Malaysia and the United States.
• Author : North American Journal of Psychology
• Release Date : January 01, 2007
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 239 KB

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Undergraduate students in the United States (172 students) and Malaysia (208 students) completed the Academic Motivations Inventory (Moen & Doyle, 1977). Malaysian students scored significantly higher than U.S. students on the following motives: Thinking, competing, desire for self-improvement, facilitating and debilitating anxiety, as well as disliking and feeling discouraged about school. U.S. students scored higher than Malaysian students on the demanding motive. A factor analysis within each sample revealed interesting similarities and differences in the structure of motivational components. The results of this study suggest that selection processes, family dynamics, and perceptions of the relative importance of effort and ability may all play a role in creating differences in academic motivation. It is vital to the future of society to enhance the learning and academic achievement of students, especially those in higher education. Given that student motivation likely plays a key role in learning and academic performance, it is crucial to develop a better understanding of the determinants and facets of academic motivation. One key factor may be culture. In the current study, we focus on the cultural dimension of national differences that may emerge via social, political, economic, and other factors. A great deal of recent media attention has focused on explaining why students in the United States tend to under-perform relative to their peers in other nations. Recent articles in news magazines such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report have all focused on this issue. Unfortunately, very little research within the United States (U.S.) has examined the academic motivation of university students (for exceptions, see Church & Katigbak, 1992; Cokley, Bernard, Cunningham, & Motoike, 2001; Livengood, 1992), and only a handful of studies have examined cross-cultural influences (e.g., Bempechat & Drago-Severson, 1999; Goyette & Xie, 1999; Yan & Gaier, 1994). The current study was designed to redress these gaps in knowledge by directly examining the academic motivation of university students in two distinct cultures. Specifically, we sought to examine multiple domains of academic motivation for university students in both Malaysia and the United States and examine these motives in relation to specific social and cultural factors that likely differ in these two countries.

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