Internalization Level Of High School Students' Learning Motivation And Relations To Self-efficacy And Social Support

As the important and implicit driver of human behavior,motivation is always the hotspot and difficulty in psychological research.Since self-determination theory(SDT) appeared in the 1980s,the study on internalization of extrinsic learning motivation(IELM) has actually began and become futher.Based on SDT,learning motivation now is the main areas of research in our country,which cantains primary school and middle school stage independently.The level of IELM development and its factors in high school,by contrast, has not been studied integrallty.In this paper,first the relation between external and internal motivition,with the mechanism of IELM,was summarized.Then based on learning motivition study at home,we surveyed 645 high school students with SRQ-A(self-regulation questionnaire),SEQ-A(academic self-efficacy questionnaire) and SRNQ(social relation network questionaire) to investigate the level of IELM,and its relations to self-efficacy and perceivable social support.The result showed that:1)Overall IELM level of high school students mainly contains identifief regulation and introjected regulation,which illustrates well independency and self-determined learning behavior.2)The IELM level of higher grades' students is higher than that of lower grades' students,and schoolboys polarized to schoolgirls self-control.3)Self-efficacy varies between the sexes and among the grades,with schoolboys higher than schoolgirls and lower grades higher than higher ones.Self-efficacy is available to represent the IELM.4)Perceivable social support varies between the sexes,with schoolgirls higher than schoolboys.5)In general,self-efficacy and intimacy promote the IELM of high school students,yet conflict and punishment hinder it.The function range could be self-efficacy,conflict,intimacy and punishment in order of size.This study widens the range in age of IELM,enrich the developmental achievements in this field,and is for reference to the level and trend of IELM.Moreover,the conclusion can provide a reference for secondary education and motivition improving.