"A escola e eu": análise da motivação do adolescente

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the predominant motivational profiles in adolescents regarding school learning and to compare them in terms of age, sex, year and school retention. Eleven students, boys and girls, enrolled in the 6th to 9th grade of a municipal public school in João Pessoa (PB), with a mean age of 13.5 years (SD = 1.14) participated in the study search. To reach the proposed objectives, a sociodemographic questionnaire and an adapted version of the Academic Motivation Scale (EMA) were used as instruments. The results indicated the predominance of the extrinsic motivational profile by regulation identified in school adolescents, as well as the existence of statistically significant differences of some of these profiles in the variables age, sex, year and school retention. These results suggest that students recognize and accept the value attributed to the behavior of going to school to obtain learning.