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Private College Students 'achievement Motivation And Its Relationship With The Parents' Parenting

Posted on:2010-05-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W F WeiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360302465135Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Achievement motivation is a personal right they consider important or valuable to the task, not only willing to do, but also strive to achieve higher standards of internal mental process. Parenting Style is communicated to children, parents, children's attitudes and behavior of the parents expressed the emotional atmosphere of the collection. To explore the origins of achievement motivation, McClelland, especially on the cultural background of the family upbringing way the relationship between achievement motivation was studied. He found that people's differences in achievement motivation is determined by the different experiences of childhood caused. Focus on the development of cultural achievement motivation and family, always emphasizing the development of personal independence, to encourage children to freedom of exploration; On the contrary, the culture of low achievement motivation of children and family, always emphasizing the development of children's dependency, to give children more restraint and limitations. Thus, achievement motivation and its relationship with parents, parenting exists between the important and relevant.In this study, our predecessors on the Achievement Motivation of College Students Based on the study, private college students to further explore the characteristics of achievement motivation, and their parents, the relationship between rearing methods aimed at improving the way parents raise and train achievement motivation, improve the living quality, and promote their physical and mental health.In this study, classes as a unit from the private colleges and universities randomly selected 320 subjects were conducted a questionnaire survey, to reject invalid questionnaires, the remaining 300 valid questionnaires, of which 143 boys, 157 girls; town of 123 students, rural students, 177 people; only son 209 women, non-son 91; Science Professional 159, Arts 141, using parental care, EMBU (EMBU), Achievement Motivation Scale (AMS), private university students investigated the status of achievement motivation as well as parents parenting the relationship between achievement motivation and the results show that:1, achievement motivationPrivate college students in the pursuit of achievement motivation on the success of gender, whether the child, the professional arts and sciences there are significant differences in male students than female students, one child than non-only-child, science majors is higher than liberal arts students; Compared with his father, the mother's literacy achievement motivation of college students a greater impact.2, parental upbringing way the relationship between achievement motivationParental warmth, understanding (FF1, MF1), father of excessive interference (FF3) and father overprotection (FF6) and the pursuit of success scores were significantly positively correlated; father's warmth and understanding (FF1) and to avoid failure scores were significantly negative correlation; father overprotection (FF6) and to avoid failure of the scores showed a significant positive correlation; parental warmth, understanding (FF1, MF1) and achievement motivation total score was significantly positively correlated. Way the parents raise the factors as independent variables, respectively, in pursuit of achievement motivation to avoid failure and achievement motivation conducted a total score of each dependent variable, multiple regression analysis, the results showed that Father emotional warmth, understanding (FF1) factors that significantly predicted the motivation to succeed; father overprotection (FF6) and father emotional warmth, understanding (FF1) that significantly predicted the motivation to avoid failure; father emotional warmth, understanding (FF1) and his father was a preference test (FF4) can significantly predicted total score achievement motivation.
Keywords/Search Tags:Private College Students, achievement motivation, parents, parenting
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