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2020 » Papers » Volume 1 » Assessing the Impact of the Basic Psychological Needs on the Educational Results: a Case Study of Students 1. ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF THE BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS ON THE EDUCATIONAL RESULTS: A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS Authors: BOIANGIU Costin Anton, Luchian Alina Elena Volume 1 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-20-017 | Pages: 135-143 | Download PDF | Abstract
The strongest type of motivation that leads a human being when it comes to solving our daily tasks is the intrinsic motivation. Contrary to extrinsic motivation which, in general terms, is guided by rewards or by the value and the importance we give to the things we have to do, the intrinsic motivation is much more powerful. This kind of motivation appears out of the significance of the work we do on a daily basis, without seeking a final reward. Over the years, the researchers have studied The Self-Determination Theory (STD) and tried to determine the conditions and the contexts that support, or on the contrary, repress this self-motivation process. They have reached the conclusion that there are three psychological needs that have a direct impact on the internal motivation and that are common to the human nature: autonomy, competence and relatedness. The purpose of this study is to investigate the connection between the fulfillment or the suppression of these three basic needs and the educational results. To prove this connection, a group of students was asked to fill in a questionnaire consisting of two parts. The first part contains a set of 5 questions regarding their academic achievements and performances during their student years. The second part includes a set of 21 questions: 7 questions assessing their autonomy, 6 questions regarding their competence and 8 questions concerning their relatedness, all of three needs in the context of the educational environment. The dataset consists of students enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree program who have graded the percentages of their academic success in the first part and, on a scale from 1 to 7, the questions from the second part of the questionnaire. The results show a direct relationship between the academic performance and the level of satisfaction for the three basic needs. In other words, the students who don't feel their three basic psychological needs fulfilled tend to have lower educational outcomes than those who marked the questions with higher grades. Therefore, this study tries to emphasize the importance of nourishing the autonomy, the competence and the relatedness of the students in their educational context in order to achieve high academic performance and low failure rate. | Keywords
Self-Determination Theory; Intrinsic Motivation; Extrinsic Motivation; |
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