The mediating role of intrinsic motivation on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic responsibility

Responsibility is one of the most important and purposeful parts of human education its effects can be seen in different aspects of life and in the educational environment, responsibility can increase the sense of commitment and positive interaction and lead to academic achievement. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of internal motivation on the relationship between academic self-efficacy and academic responsibility in students of Tehran University the statistical sample of this study was 300 students of Tehran University who were selected by the available sampling method and They responded to three questionnaires of academic self-efficacy (CASES) of Owen and Franman (1998) and academic motivation (AMS) of Walland et al. (1993) and academic responsibility (ARS) of Akbay et al. (2016) and data were collected. SPSS-26 software was used to investigate descriptive statistics and Amos-24 software was used to model structural equations research results showed the independent variable of academic self-efficacy with the results of the research showed that the independent variable of academic self-efficacy with academic self-efficacy was answered. The effect on the mediating variable of intrinsic motivation on academic responsibility has a significant indirect effect and in order to increase the sense of academic responsibility in students, we can increase the internal motivation by increasing the sense of academic self-efficacy in them and bringing students to the belief that they are capable and can afford individual academic assignments, and by increasing the internal motivation in students, the sense of responsibility of students increases and with the increase of this sense in them, they can handle university assignments better.