RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION CONCOMITANT WITH CULTURE CUM RELIGION BACKGROUND ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Motivation stimulates individual in order to act and/or perform a particular behavior that intensively satisfy their needs. Motivational factors are fluctuating according to individual personality like desire, need and interest and no universal factor is effective in all situation/level. This study was conducted to examine the impact of students motivations coupled with culture background on academic performance. For this purpose university students of southern belt HEC recognized university were considered population and stratified random sampling techniques were used for sampling selection. The required data was collected through questionnaire and total of 364 questionnaires were distributed amongst the targeted participants and 282 were received back. Study found students intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and culture background have significant positive impact on academic performance. This clearly indicates that motivation and culture background serve as a yardstick to enhance academic performance. In this regard, it is recommended that parents and teachers are required to enhance student motivation by engaging them in task oriented activities, coupled with regular counsel to develop their intrinsic motivation that may leads to inculcate reading/writing habit in the students. Moreover, students are to be rewarded on accomplishing of targeted goal, to boost their motivation level.