چکیده:
The study aimed to determine the relationship between philosophical mindedness with achievement motivation and academic performance of postgraduate students of Birjand University. The population of this descriptive correlational study includes 461 postgraduate students of Birjand University in the academic year 2012-13 in which 210 students were finally selected as sample using stratified sampling and Krejcie and Morgan’s table. Data collection tools included philosophical mindedness and Hermans’s Achievement Motivation questionnaire. In order to measure the students’ academic performance their GPA were used. Results of the data analysis showed that the philosophical mindedness (including penetration, comprehensiveness, and flexibility components) has a significant positive relationship with achievement motivation, but there was no significant relationship between philosophical mindedness (including penetration, comprehensiveness, and flexibility components) with academic performance.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Investigating the Relationship between Philosophical Mindedness with Achievement Motivation and Academic Performance in Students Sarallah Besharat1, Somayeh Saedi2, Seyed Mahdi Hosseini*3, Hekmat Allah Hematfard4 1PhD student in Educational Management, Azad University of research sciences of Ahvaz,Ahvaz, Iran.
com ABSTRACT The study aimed to determine the relationship between philosophical mindedness with achievement motivation and academic performance of postgraduate students of Birjand University.
Therefore, the main problem of the research is the question that what is the relationship between the philosophical mindedness of students, achievement motivation, and academic performance?
Given that in the present study the philosophical mindedness, achievement motivation and academic performance is examined in different fields and Birjand University has 6 faculties, therefore the postgraduate students were selected from each faculty according to the proportion of its population.
To investigate the first hypothesis of the study, entitled as" there is a relationship between the philosophical mindedness (including the components of penetration, comprehensiveness and flexibility) and achievement motivation.
To investigate the hypothesis that there is a relationship between the philosophical mindedness (including the components of penetration, comprehensiveness and flexibility) and academic performance the Pearson correlation coefficient was used , the results of which are shown in Table 4.
The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between the philosophical mindedness and achievement motivation of postgraduate students (r = 0.
The result that shows there is a significant positive relationship between achievement motivation and academic performance of the postgraduate students is consistent with the results of the research done by Tamannayifar and Gandomi (2011).