Motivation to Words Success and its Relationship with Academic Achievement among the Students of Sports Rehabilitation Department at Mu'tah University

Abstract

Mutasem Abdel Wahhab Alsoub*

This study aimed at identifying the level of motivation towards success among the students of sports rehabilitation department as a whole and according to the variables of gender, accumulative average and academic year as well as identifying the differences in the level of motivation towards successamong the students of sports rehabilitation department according to the study variables, and identifying the correlation relationship between the level of motivation towards success and academic achievement. The study sample consisted of (124) male and female students in sports rehabilitation department. The study used the descriptive approach due to its compatibility to study nature, where the researcher used a questionnaire developed by the German scholar (Ehlers, T) that is designed to measure the level of motivation towards success where the scale consisted of 41 questions. The research used the following statistical methods (means, standard deviations, t-test, and one-way variance analysis). The results revealed that motivation toward success among the students of sports rehabilitation departmentwas very high. The results revealed that there are no differences in motivation towards success according to the variables of gender and academic achievement. The results revealed that there is a positive relationship between the level of motivation towards success and academic achievement among the students of sports rehabilitation.

In the light of the results, the study recommended the necessity of conducting further studies to determine the factors affecting motivation towards success among the students of a sports rehabilitation department in order to develop effective programs to maintain and enhance the level of motivation among students and conducting more studies by using a larger sample.