The Pathway to Academic Performance: The Role of Motivation, Competence and Socio-familial Risk Factors in Lebanese Medical Students

While cognitive abilities are known to have a certain degree of predictive value for academic performance, it is now well-established that motivation and emotion-related variables, along with environmental variables such as socio-economic status and family support, also significantly contribute to t...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Chatila, Rajaa (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Srour, Jordan (author), Dimassi, Hani (author), Faour, Wissam (author), El Khoury, Jamil (author), Bahous, Sola (author), Choukair, Mary (author), Nasser, Ali (author), Abdul Nabi, Sarah (author), Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose (author)
التنسيق: article
منشور في: 2013
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/15575
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3020337/v1
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-3020337/v1
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الملخص:While cognitive abilities are known to have a certain degree of predictive value for academic performance, it is now well-established that motivation and emotion-related variables, along with environmental variables such as socio-economic status and family support, also significantly contribute to the academic success of university students. However, the specific mechanisms through which the environment influences these non-cognitive variables in predicting academic performance, particularly within the context of non-individualistic cultures, remain underexplored. In this study we examined the influence of family support, trait Emotional Intelligence (trait EI), and academic self-efficacy (ASE) on Academic Performance (AP). Additionally, we studied competence and motivation as potential mediators in the relationship between trait EI and academic self-efficacy (ASE). The study utilized structural equation models applied to two sub-samples drawn from a group of medical students. The first sub-sample, labeled the “low risk” group, consisted of students who reported minimal difficulty in paying bills and had highly educated parents. The second sub-sample, labeled the “high risk” group, included students who reported difficulty in paying bills and had less educated parents. The findings revealed that intrinsic motivation plays a more prominent role than extrinsic motivation as a mediator between trait EI, predicted by family support, and ASE, which in turn predicted AP. Among the low-risk students, both competence and intrinsic motivation fully mediated this relationship, whereas among the high-risk students, only competence acted as a mediator. These findings have significant implications for medical educational settings and are thoroughly discussed in this study