Academic Optimism and Its Relationship to Learning Motivation among Physical Education Students at Palestine Technical University-Kadoorie

Abstract

The study aimed to identify academic optimism and its relationship to learning motivation among physical education students at Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie. The researcher used the descriptive survey method in one of its correlative forms due to its suitability for the purposes of the study. The study was conducted on a stratified random sample of (77) male and female students, which represents (33.04%) of the study community. In order to collect the data, the academic optimism and learning motivation tools were used. The results of the study revealed that the level of overall academic optimism was very high, with a percentage of (82.40%), and also revealed that the level of overall learning motivation of the study sample was high at a percentage of (75.6%), in which it indicated that there is a strong positive statistically significant relationship between academic optimism  and learning motivation among the study sample, where the value of the Pearson correlation coefficient was (0.77), and the results of the One Way ANOVA indicated that there are no statistically significant differences in academic optimism and learning motivation among physical education students at Palestine Technical University - Kadoorie according to the gender and academic level variables. Based on these results, the researcher recommends conducting more studies on different scientific disciplines of university students and conducting studies similar to the current study on private university students.