Exploring Undergraduate Students' Information Seeking Motivation: A Self-Determination Perspective

Autor/in	Dubnjakovic, Ana
Titel	Exploring Undergraduate Students' Information Seeking Motivation: A Self-Determination Perspective
Quelle	(2016), (111 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, University of South Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	9781339850658
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Undergraduate Students; Information Seeking; Student Motivation; Self Determination; Student Attitudes; Theories; Information Science + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Informationserschließung; Schulische Motivation; Selbstbestimmung; Schülerverhalten; Theory; Theorie; Informationswissenschaft
Abstract	Human motivation is a widely debated construct in psychology and many disciplines in social science as well as education and health sciences have adopted various psychological theories in an effort to understand motivational forces behind many human activities from dieting (e.g., Schelling, Munsch and Margraf, 2011), psychotherapy (e.g., Martens, 2010) and academic achievement (e.g., Artino, Holmboe and Durning, 2012) to political participation (e.g., Hersh, 2012). Case (2012) devotes an entire chapter in his seminal text on information behavior to an overview of what he calls a "motivational puzzle" tying it to information need as the predominantly discussed dimension of motivation in information science literature. Similarly to information sciences, where the subjectivist tradition researchers such as Dervin recognized goal achievement only partially accounts for information need as a motivational force in the information seeking process, recent psychological motivational theories moved toward differentiating between goals and increasingly focus on their behavioral and affective consequences (Deci and Ryan, 2000). By examining goal content and the regulatory processes through which goals are pursued, self-determination theory (SDT) used in the current study accounts for a spectrum of motivational forces. Consistent with the subjectivist orientation in information sciences which aims to account for cognitive and affective forces behind information need, SDT recognizes the role of psychological development and well-being in goal attainment. Using structural equation modeling, the current study examines information seeking motivation and its relationship with basic human needs satisfaction as defined in SDT literature as well as its effect on information seeking effort and enjoyment. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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