AUTHOR=Carranza Esteban Renzo Felipe , Mamani-Benito Oscar , Castillo-Blanco Ronald , Elguera Pajares Ana , Lingan Susana K. 

TITLE=Emotional exhaustion, academic self-efficacy, and academic procrastination as predictors of research motivation

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Education

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1147599

DOI=10.3389/feduc.2023.1147599

ISSN=2504-284X

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Objective</title><p>To determine whether emotional exhaustion, academic self-efficacy, and academic procrastination predict research motivation in Peruvian university students.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>A cross-sectional predictive design was used and 1876 university students (59.9% female and 40.1% male), whose ages varied between 17 and 34 (<italic>M</italic> = 20.66; SD = 3.55), participated. The research motivation scale (RMS), academic self-efficacy scale (ASS), academic procrastination scale (APS), and the Single Item of Academic Emotional Exhaustion (SIAEE) scale were used to measure the variables.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>It is evident that the proposed model had an acceptable fit χ<sup>2</sup>(2) = 0.5, <italic>p</italic> = 0.784, comparative fit index = 1.000, root mean square error of approximation = 0.000, standardized residual root mean square = 0.003, showing that academic self-efficacy (β = 0.26, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001) and academic procrastination (β = −0.26, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001) significantly predict research motivation, unlike emotional exhaustion, which does not predict research motivation (β = 0.03, <italic>p</italic> = 0.232).</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Academic self-efficacy and academic procrastination predict research motivation while emotional exhaustion does not, as reflected in the results.</p></sec>