Effect of Sociological Factors on Targeted Motivation of Students of Secondary Education

Abstract

Objective: One of the effective factors on educational progress and improvement of learning process of students is targeted motivation. The theory of target or targeted motivation is one of the cognitive and social theories of motivation. The goal of this study is to investigate the effective sociological factorson targeted motivation of male students of secondary education in Shahrekord. Materials and methods: The research method is of descriptive-analytical type using quantitative method and the statistical society is all the students of secondary education of Shahrekord including 11,567 students. The volume of the sample of research was estimated to be 229 students using Cochran formula and statistical units were selected using cluster-simple random method. The tools to collect data were two questionnaires including the standard questionnaire of targeted motivation of Bouffard and the questionnaire tailored by the researcher to assess the independent variables of the study. The collected data analyzed using one-way variance analysis test and t-student by SPSS 21.00. The face and conceptual validity of the used tools were confirmed. The reliability was also tested using Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. It was 0.82 in the targeted motivation questionnaire and 0.80 another questionnaire tailored by the researcher for assessment. In the theoretical grounds of the current study, targeted motivation theory of Nicholls and Elliot & Deweck were used to explain the results. Findings: The findings showed that among the seven socio-economic and family factors, the variables of socialization of children, anomia in family, method of raising children, father's level of education and gender were effective on targeted motivation of students. But the socio-economic status variables of provision of family economic welfare and mother's education were not effective on targeted motivation.