A study about factors that motivate high-achieving students to perform best in an academic setting: A qualitative study

• Main Authors: Caravana, Aileen C., Lojo, Bianca Monica I.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Motivation in education; Academic achievement; Motivation (Psychology); Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/4961
• Institution: De La Salle University

High-achieving students use various ways to be stimulated to perform best in their academic setting. Motivation is the process of starting, directing and maintaining physical and psychological activities that includes mechanisms involved in preferences for one of activity over another. There are three main factors that evidently arose in the research, first is the intrinsic motivation which is the desire to engage an activity for their own sake, the second factor is extrinsic motivation which is pursuing an activity out of a sense of obligation or as means to an end and the last factor would be a motivation which is the absence of motivation. The study aspired to answer which among the factors greatly influence one's motivation in doing their task. The method employed was an interview discussion having twelve participants. Data was recorded and was later on transcribed and content analyzed. Results were categorized based from the theories supported by data strands indicating whether it is intrinsic or extrinsic and amotivation. Results showed that among the three factors, intrinsic motivation was the dominant influential factor to a student's performance in their academics and on the other hand, amotivation claims that there are factors that hinder them to do well but it's not the reason for them to fail.