Norouzi Ali, Alizadeh Maryam, Parmelee Dean, Nedjat Saharnaz, Norouzi Saiideh, Shariati Mohammad
Education Development Center, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Medical Education Department, Education Development Center (EDC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2022 Jun 11;11:157. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1005_21. eCollection 2022.
Metamotivation is a process that students use to monitor their motivational states to reach their academic goals. To date, few studies have addressed the ways that medical students manage their motivational states. This study aim to identify the motivational strategies of medical students as they use the metamotivational process to monitor and control their motivational states.
This qualitative study uses directed content analysis of the narrative responses of 18 medical students to draft an in-depth and semistructured interview protocol which were conducted through WhatsApp due to social distance restrictions of COVID-19. Data were collected, encoded, and analyzed using deductive content analysis approach descripted by Elo and Kyngäs.
Seven main themes were extracted as the motivational strategies of medical students including "regulation of value," "regulation of situational interest," "self-consequating," "environmental structuring," "efficacy management," "regulation of relatedness," and "regulation of situational awareness." In this study by identifying new strategies, we provide a broader framework of metamotivational strategies in the field of the progression of learners in medical education.
Medical students use a variety of strategies to regulate their academic motivation. To sustain and improve the motivation of medical students, identifying and strengthening metamotivational strategies is the first step.
元动机是学生用来监控自己的动机状态以实现学业目标的过程。迄今为止，很少有研究探讨医学生管理其动机状态的方式。本研究旨在确定医学生在运用元动机过程来监控和控制其动机状态时所采用的动机策略。
这项定性研究采用定向内容分析法，对18名医学生的叙述性回答进行分析，以起草一份深入的半结构化访谈提纲。由于新冠疫情的社交距离限制，访谈通过WhatsApp进行。数据收集、编码并使用Elo和Kyngäs描述的演绎性内容分析法进行分析。
提取出七个主要主题作为医学生的动机策略，包括“价值调节”“情境兴趣调节”“自我结果归因”“环境构建”“效能管理”“关联性调节”和“情境意识调节”。在本研究中，通过识别新的策略，我们在医学教育中学习者进步领域提供了一个更广泛的元动机策略框架。
医学生使用多种策略来调节他们的学业动机。为了维持和提高医学生的动机，识别并强化元动机策略是第一步。
