The Frustration and achievement motivation and their relation to academic achievement among the students of the university college in Aljamoum at Umm Al Qura University

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Associate Professor of Learning Psychology Department of Psychology, College of Education - Umm Al-Qura University

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The present study aimed to identify the levels of frustration and achievement motivation and their relation to academic achievement among the students of the university college in Aljamoum at Umm Al Qura University. The sample of the study consisted of (110) students, distributed as follows: (55) students in mathematics specializing and (55) students in Arabic language specializing. To achieve the goals of current study the researcher constructed both scales of frustration and achievement motivation. The researcher used descriptive correlation approach. The study found that the frustration and the achievement motivation were average level. Also, the study found that there were statistically significant differences in the level of frustration in favor of students in Arabic language specialization, while there were no statistically significant differences in achievement motivation due to academic specialization. The study found a statistically significant negative relationship between the level of frustration and academic achievement of students, whereas the study found a positive correlation between the level of the motivation achievement and the academic achievement among students. On the other hand, there is a negative correlation between the level of frustration and the level of motivation achievement. At the end of the study, it is recommended to organize training courses and workshops to reduce the levels of frustration and improve the achievement motivation for students of the university college in Aljamoum

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