Empirical Analysis of Influences on Dissertation Quality of Postgraduates from Perspective of Psychodynamics

Ping Cheng

2016

Abstract

This paper employs multivariate statistical analysis methods to empirically analyze the relationship of dissertation quality with the factors of student’s achievement goal orientation, achievement motivation, and self-efficacy; and to examine the influences of the factors on the dissertation quality. Through the analysis of the investigation, the research draws following conclusions: First, there are differences of graduates’ achievement goal orientation, achievement motivation, and self-efficacy due to their gender and specialty. Second, the dissertation quality has close relations with student’s achievement goal orientation, achievement motivation, and self-efficacy. Third, social responsibility goal that belongs to the achievement goal orientation directly has a positive influence on the dissertation quality; and avoiding failure goal exerts a negative influence on the dissertation quality.

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Cheng P. (2016). Empirical Analysis of Influences on Dissertation Quality of Postgraduates from Perspective of Psychodynamics . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-179-3, pages 153-160. DOI: 10.5220/0005893901530160


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@conference{csedu16,
author={Ping Cheng},
title={Empirical Analysis of Influences on Dissertation Quality of Postgraduates from Perspective of Psychodynamics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2016},
pages={153-160},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005893901530160},
isbn={978-989-758-179-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - Empirical Analysis of Influences on Dissertation Quality of Postgraduates from Perspective of Psychodynamics
SN - 978-989-758-179-3
AU - Cheng P.
PY - 2016
SP - 153
EP - 160
DO - 10.5220/0005893901530160