ERIC Number: EJ1057234
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
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Attribution and Motivation: A Cultural Study among Indonesian University Students
Sutantoputri, Novita W.; Watt, Helen M. G.
International Journal of Higher Education, v1 n2 p118-129 2012
Relationships between cultural factors (ethnicity and religiosity) and dimensions of students' attributions for their success and failure (locus of control, stability, personal control and external control), along with motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence beliefs, and academic performance were examined among 1,006 Indonesian university students. Students' stability attributions predicted their learning goals, whereas neither locus of control, personal, or external control attributions predicted any motivational goals. Self-efficacy predicted learning and performance approach goals, as well as performance avoidance goals. Students' intelligence beliefs did not show significant predictions. Ethnic importance predicted performance approach goals; whilst intrinsic religiosity predicted learning goals.
Descriptors: Motivation, Attribution Theory, College Students, Ethnicity, Religious Factors, Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Intelligence, Beliefs, Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Questionnaires, Grade Point Average, Likert Scales, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, Multiple Regression Analysis, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Indonesia
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey
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