Mental Motivation and its Relationship to Personality Quality among the Academically Outstanding Students of the First Year of Secondary School

The research aims to: identify the level of mental motivation and the level of personal quality among academically talented students, and investigate the relationship between the mental motivation and the personal quality for them, and to identify the differences between males and females in each of the dimensions of mental motivation and personal quality of academically superior students.
And to achieve the objectives of the research the descriptive approach method, and the California Mental Motivation Scale was used with some modifications, and the personal quality scale was prepared by the researcher.
The research was applied to a deliberate sample of (217) students who obtained a preparatory certificate with a total of 95% or more for the academic year 2020-2021 AD, divided into (111) female students and (106) male students.
The results indicated to the existence of a positive, statistically significant correlation between the average scores of the research sample responses on the mental motivation scale and their average scores on the personal quality scale, the absence of statistically significant differences between the general average of the research sample response scores on the mental motivation dimensions scale due to a variable Gender, except dimension of orientation towards learning in favor of males, there are no differences in the dimensions of personal quality between males and females.