Um estudo sobre a motivação na percepção dos estudantes dos cursos de Ciências Contábeis e Ciências Econômicas da UFPB campus I

Abstract

Motivation is essential for students who want to become a professional through their studies at a university. Thus, research was needed to know at what level of motivation students are. The objective of this work was to make a comparative study, based on the Self-Determination Theory, the motivation level of beginning and finishing students of the Accounting and Economic Sciences courses at UFPB Campus I. For the development of this work we used bibliographic research. The descriptive research strategy was used, and the data collection instrument used was the Academic Motivation Scale (EMA), designed by Vallerand et al. (1989). For data analysis a comparison was made between the study developed by Andrade (2018) with the students of Accounting Sciences at UFPB campus I and this study that was applied to the course of Economics at UFPB with a sample of 59 students from this course. There were, even in a minimal portion of responses, students from the Accounting and Economic Sciences courses who reported being unmotivated. These results show the attention that this portion, although small, needs to have on the part of teachers to reach their goals. However, the overall results show that students in both courses are motivated by the course they have chosen and thus strive to extract as much information as possible to succeed in their working life.