---
_id: '4480'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "The proposed paper aims to investigate the longitudinal development of students'
    motivation over the first year of their studies at a business school by using
    latent growth curve modeling. The study tackles the following core research questions:
    How do first-year university students' intrinsic and extrinsic vary over time?
    Which (motivational) factors are related to students' motivational development?
    Although motivational dispositions have been analyzed extensively in previous
    studies, their longitudinal development has hitherto not been examined in the
    higher education context.\r\n\r\nThis longitudinal study is conducted at the University
    of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The current sample includes 280 first-year students
    who have been surveyed three times and who are representative of the first-year
    student population.\r\n\r\nDescriptive results show that prior to their studies,
    students were motivated most by intrinsic factors, however, extrinsic motivation
    was also quite high. Employing latent growth curve modeling, it could be shown
    that both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation decline significantly over the course
    of the first year (8 months).\r\n\r\nThe study contributes to motivation theory
    by providing further insights into the development of academic motivation over
    time. Latent growth curve modeling as a method can be well used for longitudinal
    data analysis, thus, excluding measurement error from longitudinal data. Furthermore,
    the study supports educational developers by determining factors influencing students'
    motivational development."
author:
- first_name: Taiga
  full_name: Brahm, Taiga
  last_name: Brahm
- first_name: Tobias
  full_name: Jenert, Tobias
  id: '71994'
  last_name: Jenert
  orcid: ' https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-5646'
citation:
  ama: 'Brahm T, Jenert T. A latent growth curve analysis of Business students’ intrinsic
    and extrinsic motivation. In: EARLI European Association for Research on Learning
    and Instruction; 2013.'
  apa: 'Brahm, T., & Jenert, T. (2013). A latent growth curve analysis of Business
    students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Presented at the 15th Biennial EARLI
    Conference, München: EARLI European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction.'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Brahm_Jenert_2013, title={A latent growth curve analysis
    of Business students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation}, publisher={EARLI European
    Association for Research on Learning and Instruction}, author={Brahm, Taiga and
    Jenert, Tobias}, year={2013} }'
  chicago: Brahm, Taiga, and Tobias Jenert. “A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Business
    Students’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation.” EARLI European Association for
    Research on Learning and Instruction, 2013.
  ieee: T. Brahm and T. Jenert, “A latent growth curve analysis of Business students’
    intrinsic and extrinsic motivation,” presented at the 15th Biennial EARLI Conference,
    München, 2013.
  mla: Brahm, Taiga, and Tobias Jenert. <i>A Latent Growth Curve Analysis of Business
    Students’ Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation</i>. EARLI European Association for
    Research on Learning and Instruction, 2013.
  short: 'T. Brahm, T. Jenert, in: EARLI European Association for Research on Learning
    and Instruction, 2013.'
conference:
  end_date: 2013-08-31
  location: München
  name: 15th Biennial EARLI Conference
  start_date: 2013-08-27
date_created: 2018-09-19T08:27:05Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T07:01:06Z
department:
- _id: '208'
- _id: '282'
extern: '1'
keyword:
- motivation
- intrinsic motivation
- extrinsic motivation
- latent growth curve modeling
- longitudinal data analysis
- ASEQ
- higher education
- studying
publisher: EARLI European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction
status: public
title: A latent growth curve analysis of Business students' intrinsic and extrinsic
  motivation
type: conference
user_id: '51057'
year: '2013'
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