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King, Ronnel B.; Zhang, Rong; Wen, Jianping; Xie, Feng; Cai, Yuyang – Educational Psychology, 2023
Gratitude has mostly been explored in relation to well-being but whether it is associated with school-related outcomes such as motivation and engagement has seldom been explored. Motivation and engagement, however, are critical to students' academic success. Hence, the aim of this study was to examine how gratitude is associated with different…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Correlation
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Karimi, Saeid; Sotoodeh, Behnoosh – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
Based on the self-determination theory, this study examined the mediating role of intrinsic motivation with respect to the relationship between basic psychological needs satisfaction and students' academic engagement. Data was collected from a sample of 365 agriculture students at five public universities in western Iran. Data was collected by…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Personal Autonomy, Interpersonal Relationship, Competence
Dorothy H. Reppy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Spanning over the course of two decades, educational leaders have invested government finances into the social-emotional needs of adolescents, validating the concern of these specific educational needs. Government programs provide student questionnaires to survey the scholastic climate from students' perception. Previous research discusses the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Motivation
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Buckley, Patrick; Doyle, Elaine – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
The literature suggests that gamified learning interventions may increase student engagement and enhance learning. We empirically investigate this by exploring the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on the participation and performance of over 100 undergraduate students in an online gamified learning intervention. The paper makes a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Intervention, Learner Engagement, Pretests Posttests