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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 8 - 2023 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1147599

Emotional exhaustion, academic self-efficacy, and academic procrastination as predictors of research motivation

Renzo Carranza Esteban1* Oscar Mamani Benito2 Ronald Castillo-Blanco3 Ana Elguera Pajares1 Susana K. Lingan1
  • 1Saint Ignatius of Loyola University, Peru
  • 2Lord of Sipan University, Peru
  • 3University of the Pacific (Peru), Peru

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Objective: To determine whether emotional exhaustion, academic self-efficacy, and academic procrastination predict research motivation in Peruvian university students.A cross-sectional predictive design was used and 1876 university students (59.9% female and 40.1% male), whose ages varied between 17 and 34 (M = 20.66; SD = 3.55), participated. The research motivation scale (RMS), academic self-efficacy scale (ASS), academic procrastination scale (APS), and the Single Item of Academic Emotional Exhaustion (SIAEE) scale were used to measure the variables.It is evident that the proposed model had an acceptable fit  2 (2) = 0.5, p = .784, comparative fit index = 1.000, root mean square error of approximation = .000, standardized residual root mean square = .003, showing that academic self-efficacy ( = .26, p < .001) and academic procrastination ( = −.26, p < .001) significantly predict research motivation, unlike emotional exhaustion, which does not predict research motivation ( = .03, p = .232).Academic self-efficacy and academic procrastination predict research motivation while emotional exhaustion does not, as reflected in the results.

Keywords: Emotional exhaustion, Academic self-efficacy, academic procrastination, Research motivation, university students

Received: 18 Jan 2023; Accepted: 28 Dec 2023.

Copyright: © 2023 Carranza Esteban, Mamani Benito, Castillo-Blanco, Elguera Pajares and Lingan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Mx. Renzo Carranza Esteban, Saint Ignatius of Loyola University, Lima, Peru