Mapping the interrelationships between self-concept, motivation and university experience among students of self-financing higher education institutions in Hong Kong

Mapping the interrelationships between self-concept, motivation and university experience among students of self-financing higher education institutions in Hong Kong

• Wong, Phoebe The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Mak, Connie The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Ng, Peggy M. L. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Zhao, Jessie

Asia Pacific Education Review, 18(1), 1-11, 2017

Springer Netherlands

2017

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QJ Educational Institutes, Colleges, Research Institutes, Various Universities

Education Self-Financing Higher Education Self-Concept Motivation University Experience Higher Education Colleges & Universities Education Finance Data Analysis Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This study explores the interrelationships between self-concept, motivation and academic and social experience among students from self-financing higher education institutions in Hong Kong. Although prior studies have investigated different aspects of self that drive various types of motivation in students' academic and social experience, most of them are related to publicly funded universities only. This study aims to extend our current understanding to the context of self-financing higher education, which is an alternative to students whose academic results are not good enough to secure tertiary placements at publicly funded universities. Using qualitative approach and the technique of friendship pair, 26 students from 12 self-financing higher education institutions in Hong Kong were recruited for semi-structured interviews. Data analysis revealed that participants constructed two dimensions of the self: the personal (i.e. the actual academic self, the possible academic self, the spiritual self and the extended self) and relational (i.e. the familial self and the social self) dimensions in the light of their university experience. The findings provide a better understanding of the contemporary university experience in relation to self and motivation among students studying at self-financing higher education institutions.
[Asia Pacific Education Review is a copyright of Springer, 2017]

• English

Journal Articles

• 15981037

• 10.1007/s12564-017-9473-x

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/cf54bc47

2017-10-09