Psychometric properties of the mental motivation scale among university students

The present research aimed to identify the nature of the psychometric properties of the mental motivation scale, The sample of the research consisted of 150 male and female in the first and second grades at the Faculty of Education, Damietta University. To answer the questions of the study, the validity of the mental motivation scale was verified by two methods: the peripheral comparison and factor analysis, which found that there are four dimensions of mental motivation (orientation towards learning, creative problem solving, cognitive integration, mental focus), Its reliability was assessed with Cronbach,s alpha. Alphas ranged between 0.599 and 0.870 method are high, which confirms the reliability of the scale, and also found that the internal consistency coefficients are high between the vocabulary and the dimensions to which it belongs, and between the dimensions and the total score on the scale. The results of the research also revealed that the level of university students in mental motivation and its three dimensions (orientation towards learning - cognitive integration - mental focus) is higher than the average, and also found that there are no statistically significant differences in mental motivation and its three dimensions (orientation towards learning - creative problem solving - cognitive integration) due to academic specialization variable (scientific / literary), the absence of statistically significant differences in mental motivation due to place of residence variable (rural / urban), as well as the absence of statistically significant differences in mental motivation due to school year variable (first / second).