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| Published: December 31, 2020
Evaluation of academic motivation in physiotherapy students
BPTH, Sancheti Institute College of Physiotherapy, Maharashtra, India Google Scholar More about the auther
HOD and Professor of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, Maharashtra, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Research officer and MS (orthopedic) Sancheti Institute of orthopedic and rehabilitation, Maharashtra, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Chairman and MS (orthopedic) Sancheti Institute of orthopedic and rehabilitation, Maharashtra, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.181/20200804
DOI: 10.25215/0804.181
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Motivation is a very important and integral part of human behaviour, which is very commonly neglected by everyone. Academic Motivation plays an important role in the student’s academic behaviour. There are various types of motivation which is also of great significance as it determines the motive behind a person’s behaviour. Objective: The aim of this study was to find the orientation of motivation in Physiotherapy Students which encouraged them to attend college. Methodology: The data was collected using Academic Motivational Scale – College version, data was collected from 378 students from different physiotherapy colleges. Results: The students were primarily motivated due to intrinsic motivation to know (89%); followed by extrinsic motivation identified (73.55%); intrinsic motivation to experience stimulation (72.67%); intrinsic motivation towards accomplishment (67.34%); extrinsic motivation of external regulation (63.48%), extrinsic motivation introjected (60.46%); and lastly amotivation (17.72%). Conclusion: Students were highly intrinsically motivated followed by extrinsic motivation and amotivation.
Keywords
Academic Motivation, Orientation of Motivation, Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Amotivation, Physiotherapy Students.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2020, Dalal P., Nagarwala R., Shyam A. K. & Sancheti P.
Received: September 07, 2020; Revision Received: September 13, 2020; Accepted: December 31, 2020
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.181/20200804
10.25215/0804.181
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Published in Volume 08, Issue 4, October-December, 2020