A Study of Relationship between Socialization at University and Educational Motivation among Students

The present research has been organized based on theoretical approaches and experimental investigations that deal with non-educational aspects of educational process and their impacts on the educational outcomes. Therefor, the effect of university socialization on educational motivation of students has been studied by emphasizing on concepts such as educational adherence, sense of communality, and educational control and generally speaking on mechanisms that students use for psychological and social adaption with university environment. Two questionnaires have been used to garner the data for the present study: educational motivation (AMS) based on theory of autonomy; and questionnaire of tactics of socialization and the relationship between the two variables are explained with the help of the ideas of Wideman, Bolger and Somech. The sample of the present study was constituted of 307 students from all educational disciplines of the Shahed University (including medical and non-medical students). The findings of the research show that there is significant relationship between the type of educational motivation and that of university socialization on the one hand and the mediatory role of gender on the other. The result also shows that the students with inner motivation and scientific socialization have the highest level of academic achievement. This relation is stronger among the girls compared to the boys, while the lowest level of academic achievement belongs to students who are without motivation and their socialization is student oriented. This relation is stronger among boys.