Investigating the causes of decreased motivation for research activity in farhangian university students
Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy
1 - Assistant professor, department of Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran.
Keywords: Farhangian University, Causes of Decreased Motivation, Research Activity, Analysis of Exploratory Factors,
Abstract :
Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors that reduce the motivation of research activity in students of Farhangian University of Khuzestan province. Methodology: The research method was a descriptive method of exploratory factor analysis. The statistical population of this study includes all students who were studying and teaching at Farhangian University of Khuzestan province in the academic year of 2016-17, a sample of 220 continuous students of undergraduate course with regard to Morgan and Karajsi table and cluster sampling method. The researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect information. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistical methods such as frequency table and percentage and column diagram, mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics including exploratory factor analysis test were used using SPSS software version 21 and for all hypotheses the significance level Dari was considered 0.05. Results: The results of factor analysis, after rotating the factors extracted by Warimax method, determined that five factors (administrative and organizational management causes, environmental environmental causes, scientific causes, professional causes and individual causes) in total 62.87 of Explains the variance of variables. Conclusion: According to the research findings, the respondents identified five factors (administrative factors, environmental factors, technical factors, scientific factors and individual factors) as factors reducing the motivation of research from the perspective of students of Farhangian University of Khuzestan province
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