An investigation on nursing, midwifery and health care students’ learning motivation in Turkey

Autor: Sibel Erkal, Unal Ayranci, M. Bahaddin Acat, Nilüfer Özabaci, Nedime Kosgeroglu
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Nurse Education in Practice. 9:331-339
ISSN: 1471-5953
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2008.07.003
Popis: The aim was to determine differences between the dimensions of motivational learning and sociodemographic characteristics of nursing, midwifery and health care students. For the purpose of collecting data on learning-oriented motivations, occupational learning motivation scale (OLMS) was used. The OLMS was designed to assess the constructs of extrinsic, intrinsic and negative factors for learning, cognitive and lifelong learning goals. The mean levels of the items "willingness to help people", "fear of making mistakes" and "willingness to work with those likely to motivate them" were all determined to be high. Significant differences were revealed for the sex of the students (p
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