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ArticleBMC psychology2023

Want-to, have-to, amotivation, grit, self-control, and tolerance ambiguity among university students: latent profile analysis.

Amal Alhadabi, Ibrahim Al-Harthy, Said Aldhafri, Hussain Alkharusi

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Article in BMC psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Amal AlhadabiEvaluation and Measurement, Psychology Department, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khodh, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. a.alhadabi2@squ.edu.om.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2228-3761
Ibrahim Al-HarthyEducational Psychology, Psychology Department, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khodh, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7649-1358
Said AldhafriEvaluation and Measurement, Psychology Department, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, Al-Khodh, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1776-263X
Hussain AlkharusiEvaluation and Measurement, Psychology Department, College of Education, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khodh, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5822-9188
Sultan Qaboos University · OMNational University of Science and Technology · ZW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current study adopted a person-centered approach to identify distinctive university students' profiles based on three variables (i.e., three academic motivations, grit, and self-control), regress multiple covariates (i.e., gender, age, study level, and college) on profile membership, and estimate differences on ambiguity tolerance across the estimated profiles. Data on 525 university students were modeled using Latent Profile Analysis. The findings found three latent profiles, which were: [1] Unmotivated and undisciplined students with low grit, [2] Moderately motivated and disciplined students with average grit, and [3] Highly motivated, gritty and disciplined students. Gender, study level, and college significantly predicted profile affiliation, identifying the characteristics of students within each profile. Significant differences were revealed in the ambiguity tolerance among the obtained profiles. These valuable results offer customized recommendations and prospective initiatives, strengthening the constructive effect of proper academic motivation types, purposeful grit, and intentional self-control (143 words).

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Self-ControlHumansMotivationProspective StudiesStudentsUniversitiesAcademic motivationDemographicsGritLatent profile analysisSelf-controlUniversity students

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PMID37660100
PMCPMC10475198
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