Abstract

Using data from 4047 adolescents in three countries, this study was designed to investigate the associations between two important components of the learning process: academic motivation and student engagement. To increase the precision and accuracy of these analyses, preliminary analyses were conducted to identify the optimal measurement structure of both constructs, leading us to retain a bifactor exploratory structural equation modeling representation of academic motivation and of a partial bifactor confirmatory factor analytic representation for student engagement. Our main analyses revealed that academic motivation factors were able to explain almost 66% of the variance in global levels of engagement, and between 5% and 35% of the variance in specific levels of engagement. Finally, mediation analyses supported the role of emotional engagement as a mediator of the association between academic motivation and global and specific behavioral forms of engagement.

摘要

本研究使用来自三个国家的 4047 名青少年的数据，旨在调查学习过程的两个重要组成部分之间的关​​联：学业动机和学生参与度。为了提高这些分析的精度和准确性，进行了初步分析以确定两种结构的最佳测量结构，使我们保留了学术动机的双因素探索性结构方程建模表示和学生参与的部分双因素验证性因素分析表示. 我们的主要分析表明，学术动机因素能够解释近 66% 的全球参与水平差异，以及 5% 到 35% 的特定参与水平差异。最后，