Motivation, selfesteem and academic performance

Abstract

This exposfact, explanatory field research analyzes the effects that motivation and sefl-esteem has over academic performance. The sample is composed of 30 college students from 4th semester at Escuela de Informática del Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Antonio José de Sucre. This study is based on Branden (1995), Woolfolk (1996) and Reeve's (1998) theories. Two multiple choice scales have been used to collect data. The results show the following, 1) Intrinsic motivation expressed in two levels: intermediate and very low; 2) A relevant correlation of 0.448 at 0.05 between motivation and academic performance and a relevant correlation of 0.495 at 0.01 between motivation and self-esteem; 3) the R2 from the "motivation" variable explains the 20.07% of the variance of "academic