Relationship between academic achievement motivation, self-efficacy, and the attitude to write a thesis

• Autor: Ruiz-Dodobara, Fernando Gabriel
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2005
• Institución: Universidad de Lima
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad de Lima
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.ulima.edu.pe:article/898
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.ulima.edu.pe/index.php/Persona/article/view/898
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Academic achievement motivation; self; evaluated efficacy for writing a thesis; disposition to write a thesis; Motivación de logro académico; autoeficacia; disposición para escribir una tesis

This paper is the report of a study about the problems which psychology students have to resolve when they write a thesis for obtaining the degree. In the frame of this study three variables were considered: academic achievement motivation, selfevaluated autoefficacy for writing a thesis, and the will to write her. A sample of´psychology students in the last academic semesters of three privates universities answered the psychometric reactives used for this study. The author comments the relationships between the variables and their intensity.