Mohammad Hossein Shakeri Goki, Fateme Atoof, Ali Norouzi, Nazdar Ezzedin Al-Khatib, Fakhrosadat Mirhosseini,
Volume 23, Issue 0 (3-2023)
Abstract
Introduction: During education, self-regulation strategies of motivation maintain and improve motivation. Undergraduate anesthesia students employ motivation regulation strategies due to their challenging academic conditions. This study endeavors to determine the extent undergraduate anesthesia students use motivation regulation strategies as well as the relationship between these strategies with age, gender, marital status, academic year and number of completed online semesters.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 358 students in the 2022 academic year. Convenient sampling was used and data gathered using Norouzi et al.'s (2020) questionnaire. As to descriptive analysis of data and the relationship of strategies with demographic variables, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis H test and Spearman's correlation coefficient were used. The correlation between strategies was measured with Spearman's correlation coefficient, the mean score of the subscales was standardized, and the difference between the means was shown by analysis of variance with repeated measurements.
Results: The results revealed that Spearman's correlation coefficient between all subscales was above 0.3. Gender, number of online semesters with regulation of situational interest strategy, and marital status variables with preventive situational awareness strategy and relational strategy, respectively (p<0.05) were related. However, the age variable had an inverse correlation with the environmental organization and situational interest regulation subscales (p<0.05), the standardized score of undergraduate anesthesia students in most of the subscales were significantly different p< .001.
Conclusion: The results of this study suggested that undergraduate anesthesia students do not use motivational regulation strategies to the same extent. Besides, some motivational regulation strategies are related to demographic variables.
