Achievement Motivation Among Students

Motivation plays a significant role in students’ academic life. Achievement motivation is the basic need for success or the attainment of excellence. Achievement motivation forms to be the basis for a good life. The present study investigated whether achievement motivation differed on individual variables (disciplines/courses, academic performance and gender). A questionnaire was administered to 656 pure science and applied science under graduate students from Bangalore city. Academic achievement referred to their results in the previous semester. Gender was also considered for the analysis. The tool used for the present study was Deo - Mohan Achievement Motivation scale (n-Ach) (1985). For non-normal variable Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis were used to test various hypotheses of the study. Pure science and applied science course students significantly differed on achievement motivation. There was no significant difference in achievement motivation among high and low academic performance students. Boys and girls differed significantly on achievement motivation.