Abstract
While most of the research on gender and subject level differences has been conducted with same
group of students studying different subjects, these differences have been comparatively less
examined at college/ university level among postgraduate students enrolled in different study
domains. This paper presents the results of the multivariate analysis of covariance of motivation
beliefs of the 368 postgraduate students in five different subject areas at a public university in
Lahore Pakistan. A Questionnaire was developed by adapting scales from Motivated Strategies for
Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), to measure the motivational beliefs of students. The results of
the study indicated that males and females have different levels of motivational beliefs with
females being more test anxious and extrinsically motivated than males. These beliefs also varied
across different disciplines of study and significant department wise differences were revealed in
the motivational components of task value and test anxiety.
Munaza Nausheen, Effat Alvi, Paul William Richardson. (2019) Patterns of Gender and Disciplinary Disparities among Postgraduate Students’ Motivational Beliefs: A Multivariate Analysis, Bulletin of Education & Research, Volume 41, Issue 1.
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