Relationship between Psychological well-being and Achievement Motivation Among Libyan Postgraduate Students in Malaysia

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has uncovered the urgent need for focus on mental health worldwide. Apart from the physical pandemic, international health officials have identified an accompanying, and probably more serious, mental health pandemic. Mental health issues have been identified to include academic stress and its correlates that affect higher education students. This survey carried out to uncover the relationship between psychological wellbeing and achievement motivation among male and female Libyan postgraduate students. The sample is 82 (43 male and 39 female) Libyan postgraduate students. The students answered the same scales including Ryff's psychological well-being test (1989). Achievement Motivation test by Smith (1972) developed by Smith (2018). Pearson correlation coefficient test and independent T-test were used to analyse the data. Results showed that there is a significant relationship between psychological well -being and achievement motivation among the male and female Libyan students. The result also revealed that there were no gender differences in psychological well -being and achievement motivation among male and female Libyan postgraduate students.

The Mediating Role of Social Adjustment in the Relationship between Psychological Well-Being, and Achievement Motivation among Arab Postgraduate Students in Malaysia

“…Furthermore, the study assessed the relationship between psychological well being and achievement motivation, the results showed no a significant relationship between achievement motivation and components of psychological well-being. This finding is not in line with some other studies that observe this relationship (e.g., Grera & Abd Hamid, 2021;Nisa & Sehar, 2017;Grera et al, 2022;Anamika, 2020) The results of these studies showed that psychological well-being was significantly positively associated with achievement motivation.…”

“…Some of the previous researches examined the relationship of psychological well-being with achievement motivation. Research findings have supported this relation for example, the study was conducted by (Grera & Abd Hamid, 2021) studied the relationship between psychological well-being and Achievement Motivation Among Libyan Postgraduate students in a sample of 82 (43 male and 39 female) Libyan postgraduate students. The results showed that psychological well-being was significantly positively associated with achievement motivation among Libyan postgraduate students.…”

“…Therefore, students must understand that good level of social adjustment could be real factor to make balance relationship between their healthy psychological and their motivation for achievement. In this respect, Grera & Abd Hamid (2021) indicated that there is a significant relationship between psychological well -being and achievement motivation among Libyan students. Moreover, Grera et al (2022) conferred that psychological well-being and social adjustment were significant predictors of achievement motivation among Arab postgraduate students.…”

Psychometric Properties of a New Achievement Motivation Measure for Arab Postgraduate Students in Malaysia (AMMA)

“…Students' achievement motivation contributes significantly to establishing their selfconfidence and are more aware of the achievement of their activities, in which case their qualifications are an internal energy of behaviour driven towards achieving their goals. The motivation for achievement is motivated by students to make greater efforts to achieve a certain level of knowledge and therefore is more related to the degree of learning and education and from it to the high motivation for achievement (Barbara et al, 2000;Grera & Abd Hamid, 2021). studied the relationship between psychological well-being and Achievement Motivation Among Libyan Postgraduate students.…”