Achievement motivation among public school students and its impact on academic achievement in light of some variables (Published)
The current study aimed to identify the Achievement motivation of public school students and its impact on academic achievement in light of some variables, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher followed the relational descriptive approach, as the motivation for achievement scale was relied upon to identify the level of achievement motivation among school students, and the study concluded that motivation Achievement among students, in general, is average, while the study showed that there is a continuous correlation between achievement motivation and achievement, and the study also found that there are differences in the level of achievement motivation attributable to both the place of residence and the extent of the availability of the Internet among students, and the study continued the need to search for reasons The potential behind the low achievement motivation of students
Keywords: Achievement, Achievement Motivation., school students.
Emotional Intelligence, Achievement Motivation and Secondary School Students Social Adjustment in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State Nigeria (Published)
Over the years, Nigeria adolescents have been faced with various adjustment challenges. These issues have been judged to be responsible for the maladjustment issues being witnessed. Therefore, this study examines emotional intelligence, achievement motivation and adolescents in Calabar municipality.The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Two hundred and forty adolescents were randomly selected from Calabar municipality and Orlu senatorial Cross River State Four instruments used in the study were: Emotional Intelligence Scale ( = 0.70); Achievement Motivation Scale ( = 0.82); adjustment scale ( = 0.75) two research hypotheses were tested and Pearson product. Moment Correlation (PPMC) statistics was used for data analysis. The result reveals that all the independent variables used in the study significantly influenced adjustment of adolescents as thus; Emotional intelligence, r (238) = 0.928, P<.05. Achievement motivation, r (238) = 0.452. and adjustment, r (238) = 0.850. in this regard, Government should on regular bases organize workshops and seminars on leadership training for individuals particularly; political office holders while incorporating emotional intelligence and political education. This will motivate political office holders to achieve sustainable leadership development.
Keywords: Achievement Motivation., Emotional Intelligence, leadership development, political education