RT Journal Article
T1 Motivational Profile, Future Expectations, and Attitudes toward Study of Secondary School Students in Spain: Results of the PISA Report 2018
A1 Mercader Rubio, Isabel
A1 Oropesa Ruiz, Nieves Fátima
A1 Gutiérrez Ángel, Nieves
A1 Fernández Martínez, María Mar
AB During the secondary school stage, students’ motivation to study may decrease and affecttheir future expectations, which are exclusively directed toward the search for employment, withthe consequent abandonment of academic training. The main objective of the present paper was toexamine the sources of motivation to study and the future expectations of secondary school students,as well as to develop a predictive model of their future expectations based on the variables studied.The sample consisted of a total of 35,943 students from different Spanish high schools, with an averageage of 15.83 (SD = 0.28). The instrument used was the placement tests referring to the PISA 2018report. On the one hand, the results showed that the main source of motivation for secondary schoolstudents to study responds to some kind of imposition either from the surrounding environment orinternally, which appears to be represented by identified or controlled extrinsic motivation. In termsof future expectations, important factors included the fundamentally expression of their intention tocontinue studying rather than to stop studying, facts or economic support which they consideredas influential to their capacity to study, and the opinions of others such as parents and friends. Onthe other hand, sex showed some significant differences in terms of future expectations but did notpredict them. The regression model explained 20.9% of the variability of future expectations basedon variables such as grade repetition, reasons that discourage studying (not being interested in thecontents and never studying), and the influences on future expectations (school grades and subjectmastery). Finally, the structural equation model revealed that grade repetition predicts the reasonsthat discourage studying and these in turn impact future expectations which are influenced by schoolgrades, performing well in a specialty, and having talent. Likewise, there was a negative correlationbetween repeating a course and school grades, performing well in a specialty, and having talent.Based on these results, it would be advisable to improve the intrinsic motivation of secondary schoolstudents by means of educational actions that contribute to the adjustment of their future expectationsand attend to the students’ own interests, desires, and competencies, all with the main purpose ofcontributing to meaningful learning and facilitating professional orientation, and above all, attendingto diversity to reduce school failure
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20796
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20796
LA eng
NO Mercader Rubio, I., Oropesa Ruiz, N. F., Ángel, N. G., & Fernández Martínez, M. M. (2022). Motivational Profile, Future Expectations, and Attitudes toward Study of Secondary School Students in Spain: Results of the PISA Report 2018. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 19, Issue 7, p. 3864). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073864
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026