European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

INVESTIGATION OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AMONG STUDENTS STUDYING ENGLISH IN CHABAHAR CITY 2016

Shaban Ghoreishinia*

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Self-esteem is the most important Psychological factor in learning performance prediction. Researchers believe that self-esteem is a determinants of human behavior .Some studies had shown a significant positive relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement motivation among students studying English in Chabahar city. Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 100 students studying English in Chabahar Universities which were selected randomly. Data were collected using a questionnaire which included three parts. The first part was for demographic information. The second part was the 5 point cooper and smith scale. The third part of questionnaire was the educational motivation questionnaire that was the reformed version of learning motivations scale of Harter 1981. Data were analyzed by the SPSSv.19 through Descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation and Chi-square. Results: 100 English translating students from Chabahar were included to this study. The mean age was 22.74±2.22. 67 of the respondents were male (67%) and 33 were females (33%). There wasn’t any significant relationship between internal and external motivation with self-esteem (p>0.05). The total score mean in internal motivation was 53.34±4.45. In external motivation it was 34.13±3.02 and in self-esteem it was 30.10±3.33. Conclusion: The results of this study had shown that there is no significant relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement motivation. Also the self-esteem and academic motivation is not satisfactory among students.

Keywords: self-esteem, academic motivation, students.