Ballmann Jodi M, Mueller Jill J
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
J Allied Health. 2008 Summer;37(2):90-6.
This study investigated the various reasons that allied health students believe they are currently attending college. The Academic Motivation Scale was administered to a convenience sample of 222 upperclassmen and graduate-level students (162 women, 46 men). The Academic Motivation Scale proposes various reasons for continued engagement in academic pursuits that may be characteristic of personal and current reasons for persistence in a subject's particular academic program. The results showed that students portrayed themselves as currently attending college for both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated reasons. The most frequently endorsed motivational styles were identified (autonomous) extrinsic motivation and externally regulated (nonautonomous) extrinsic motivation. This study showed that this sample of professional-level college students was not completely self-determined in their end-stage academic pursuits. One conclusion that may be drawn from this study is that allied health programs that provide students with an educational context that supports self-determination may encourage future allied health professionals to develop the ability to support the self-determination of their future clients.
本研究调查了健康相关专业学生认为自己目前上大学的各种原因。对222名高年级和研究生水平的学生（162名女性，46名男性）的便利样本进行了学术动机量表测试。学术动机量表提出了继续参与学术追求的各种原因，这些原因可能是个人和当前坚持某一学科特定学术项目的原因所特有的。结果表明，学生们认为自己目前上大学既有内在动机也有外在动机。确定了最常被认可的动机类型（自主）外在动机和外部调节（非自主）外在动机。这项研究表明，这个专业水平的大学生样本在其最后阶段的学术追求中并没有完全自我决定。从这项研究中可以得出的一个结论是，为学生提供支持自我决定的教育环境的健康相关专业项目，可能会鼓励未来的健康相关专业人员培养支持其未来客户自我决定的能力。
